Spilaio Agiou Galaktos

Higher Geography
Region: Voreio Aigaio,
Sub-Region: Chios,
Municipality: Chios,
Closest Settlement: Agio Gala
Cave type
Natural
Protection status
  • Archaeological Site - Ministerial Decision 30650/1466/24-10-1990 (OGG 705/Β/8-11-1990)
  • K905 - Ag. Galaktos Dimou Amanis [Wildlife Refuge]: OGG 1059/Β/2006
Fauna
  • Ephippiochthonius chius (Schawaller, 1990), Schawaller 1990, Beron 2016
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Pseudoscorpionida / Family: Chthoniidae
  • Hyleoglomeris subreducta Golovatch, 2013, Golovatch 2013a, Beron 2016
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Diplopoda / Order: Glomerida / Family: Glomeridae
  • Leptonetela chiosensis Wang & Li, 2011, Wang & Li 2011, Wang et al. 2017
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Araneae / Family: Leptonetidae
  • Metafruticicola redtenbacheri (L. Pfeiffer, 1856), Karakasi et al. 2024
    Phylum: Mollusca / Class: Gastropoda / Order: Stylommatophora / Family: Hygromiidae
  • Miniopterus schreibersii (Kuhl, 1817), Beron 2016, Georgiakakis et al. 2023
    Phylum: Chordata / Class: Mammalia / Order: Chiroptera / Family: Miniopteridae
  • Pholcus phalangioides (Fuesslin, 1775), Naumova et al. 2016
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Araneae / Family: Pholcidae
  • Rhinolophus ferrumequinum (Schreber, 1774), Beron 2016
    Phylum: Chordata / Class: Mammalia / Order: Chiroptera / Family: Rhinolophidae
  • Rhinolophus hipposideros (André, 1797), Georgiakakis et al. 2023
    Phylum: Chordata / Class: Mammalia / Order: Chiroptera / Family: Rhinolophidae
  • Schistophallus samius (E. von Martens, 1889), Karakasi et al. 2024
    Phylum: Mollusca / Class: Gastropoda / Order: Stylommatophora / Family: Oxychilidae
  • Simplogonopus rubellus (Attems, 1902), Golovatch 2013a, Beron 2016, Vagalinski et al. 2019
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Diplopoda / Order: Polydesmida / Family: Trichopolydesmidae
  • Steatoda grossa (C.L. Koch, 1838), Beron 2016, Naumova et al. 2016
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Araneae / Family: Theridiidae
Cave references
  • Petrocheilou, A. 1971. The cave “Agiogalousaina” of Chios (CRNr 1983). Bull. Soc. Speleol. Grèce 11:10–16.
  • Petrocheilou, A. 1984. The Greek Caves. Ekdotiki Athinon 160pp.
Species references
  • Beron, P. 2016. Faune cavernicole de la Grèce. Maison d'édition Est-West., Sofia. pp. 229.
  • Georgiakakis P, Kafkaletou Diez A, Salvarina I, Benda P, Billington G, Dietz C, Billington J, Cove D, Davison S, Cooke M, Papadatou E. 2023. The Bats of Greece: An Updated Review of Their Distribution, Ecology and Conservation. Animals. 2023; 13(15):2529. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13152529
  • Golovatch, S. I. 2013. Three new species of the millipede genus Hyleoglomeris Verhoeff, 1910 from the Aegean region of Greece (Diplopoda, Glomerida, Glomeridae). Biodiversity Data Journal, 1 (e1000): 1-13.
  • 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
  • Naumova, M., Lazarov, S., Petrov, B. & Deltshev, C. 2016. New faunistic data on the cave-dwelling spiders in the Balkan Peninsula (Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina, 7: 425-438.
  • Schawaller, W. 1990. Zwei neue höhlenbewohnende Chthonius-Arten (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones) von den Griechischen Inseln Santorin und Chios. Ann. Mus. Goulandris, 8: 417-424.
  • Vagalinski B, Golovatch SI, Akkari N, Stoev P. 2019. Simplogonopus rubellus (Attems, 1902) gen. n., comb. n. (Diplopoda : Polydesmida : Trichopolydesmidae): Revealing the Identity of an Enigmatic Eastern-Mediterranean Millipede. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 71(3):325–334
  • Wang C., Li S. 2011. A further study on the species of the spider genus Leptonetela (Araneae: Leptonetidae). Zootaxa 90:1–90
  • 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
Citation
Paragamian, K. 2026. Fauna of the cave Spilaio Agiou Galaktos, Agio Gala, Chios, Voreio Aigaio. In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Cave data updated 14.02.2024, Accessed 08.02.2026