Spilaio Skoteini

Higher Geography
Region: Sterea Ellada,
Sub-Region: Evvoia,
Municipality: Kymi - Aliveri,
Closest Settlement: Tharounia
Cave type
Natural
Fauna
  • Acanthopetalum sp., Beron 2016
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Diplopoda / Order: Callipodida / Family: Schizopetalidae
  • Alpioniscus matsakisi Andreev, 1984, Andreev 1984, Andreev & Bozarova 2000, Beron 2016
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Malacostraca / Order: Isopoda / Family: Trichoniscidae
  • Brachydesmus sp., Beron 2016
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Diplopoda / Order: Polydesmida / Family: Polydesmidae
  • Dolichopoda makrykapa Boudou-Saltet, 1980, Di Russo et al. 2014
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Orthoptera / Family: Rhaphidophoridae
  • Graeconiscus dryopeorum (Vandel, 1964), Beron 2016
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Malacostraca / Order: Isopoda / Family: Trichoniscidae
  • Harpolithobius anodus (Latzel, 1880), Matic & Stavropoulos 1988, Stoev & Beron 2000, Zapparoli 2002, Beron 2016
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Chilopoda / Order: Lithobiomorpha / Family: Lithobiidae
  • Kryptonesticus eremita (Simon, 1879), Deltshev 1985, Bosmans & Chatzaki 2005, Beron 2016
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Araneae / Family: Nesticidae
  • Laemostenus cimmerius (Fischer von Waldheim, 1823), Beron 2016
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Coleoptera / Family: Carabidae
  • Leptonetela penevi Wang & Li, 2016, Wu et al. 2016, Wang et al. 2017
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Araneae / Family: Leptonetidae
  • Mediterranea mylonasi (A. Riedel, 1983), Riedel 1992, Riedel 1996, Beron 2016, Karakasi et al. 2024
    Phylum: Mollusca / Class: Gastropoda / Order: Stylommatophora / Family: Oxychilidae
  • Meta bourneti Simon, 1922, Deltshev 1985, Beron 2016
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Araneae / Family: Tetragnathidae
  • Polydesmus sp., Beron 2016
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Diplopoda / Order: Polydesmida / Family: Polydesmidae
  • Rhinolophus sp., Beron 2016
    Phylum: Chordata / Class: Mammalia / Order: Chiroptera / Family: Rhinolophidae
  • Speleodentorcula beroni Gittenberger, 1985, Gittenberger 1985, Beron 2016, Reischütz et al. 2017, Karakasi et al. 2024
    Phylum: Mollusca / Class: Gastropoda / Order: Stylommatophora / Family: Argnidae
  • Trachysphaera sp., Beron 2016
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Diplopoda / Order: Glomerida / Family: Trachysphaeridae
Cave references
  • Skouras, Th. 2000. Caves of Evvoia and Skyros. Bull. Soc. Speleol. Grèce 21:229–261.
Species references
  • Andreev, S. & Bozarova, F. 2000. Type material of Isopoda (Crustacea: Oniscidea, Anthuridea) from the collections of the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia. Hist. Nat. Bulg., 12: 25-32.
  • Andreev, S. 1984. Contribution a l΄ étude des isopodes terrestres de la Grèce. 1. Sur une nouvelle espèce cavernicole du genre Alpioniscus. (Oniscoidea, Trichoniscidae). Biol. gallo-hellen., 11 (1): 61-64.
  • Beron, P. 2016. Faune cavernicole de la Grèce. Maison d'édition Est-West., Sofia. pp. 229.
  • Bosmans, R. & Chatzaki, M. 2005. A catalogue of the spiders of Greece. A critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Newsletter Belg. Arachn. Soc., 20 (2): 1-124.
  • Deltshev, C. 1985. New data conserning cave spiders (Araneae) in Greece with description of a new Leptonetela (Araneae, Leptonetidae). Acta Zool. Bulg., 27: 41-45.
  • Di Russo, C., Rampini, M. & Cobolli, M. 2014. The cave crickets of Greece: a contribution to the study of Southern Balkan Rhaphidophoridae diversity (Orthoptera), with the description of a new species of Troglophilus Krauss , 1879. Biodiversity Journal, 5 (3): 397-420.
  • Gittenberger, E. 1985. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Pupillacea. XI. Speleodentorcula beroni gen. & spec. nov. (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Orculidae) aus einer Höhle in Euböa, Griechenland. Zool. Meded., Leiden, 59 (19): 221-227.
  • Karakasi D, Paragamian K, Mylonas M, Vardinoyannis K 2024. What`s crawling in the dark? An annotated list of gastropods in Greek caves.. Subterranean Biology 48: 73-116. https://doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.48.113383
  • Matic, Z. & Stavropoulos, G. 1988. Contribution a la connaissance des Chilopodes de Grèce. Biol. gallo-hellen., 14 (1): 33-46.
  • Reischütz A, Steiner-Reischütz N, Reischütz PL 2017. Helleniká pantoía, XLVI. Die Messa Mani (Peloponnes, Griechenland) - 35 Jahre später".. Nachrichtenblatt der Ersten Vorarlberger Malakologischen Gesellschaft. 24: 63–64.
  • Riedel, A. 1992. The Zonitidae (sensu lato) (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) of Greece. Fauna Graeciae V. Hellenic Zoological Society. pp. 194.
  • Riedel, A. 1996. Die in West-Paläarktis unterirdisch lebenden Zonitidae sensu lato (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora). Fragm. faun., 39 (24): 363-390.
  • Stoev, P. & Beron, P. 2000. On the type specimens of Myriapoda (Chilopoda, Diplopoda) in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia.. Arthropoda Selecta 9:91–102.
  • Wang C.-X., Xu X., Li S.-Q. 2017. Integrative taxonomy of Leptonetela spiders (Araneae, Leptonetidae), with descriptions of 46 new species. Zoological Research 38:321–448
  • Wu, Y., Wang, C., Zheng, G. & Li, S. 2016. Three new species of the genus Leptonetela from Greece (Araneae, Leptonetidae). ZooKeys (569): 23-35.
  • Zapparoli, M. 2002. A catalogue of the centipedes from Greece (Chilopoda). Fragm. Entomol., 34 (1): 1-146.
Citation
Paragamian, K. 2026. Fauna of the cave Spilaio Skoteini, Tharounia, Kymi - Aliveri, Sterea Ellada. In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Cave data updated 18.07.2022, Accessed 31.01.2026