Histopona thaleri Gasparo, 2005

Higher Taxonomy
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Agelenidae
Genus: Histopona
Characterisation
Troglophile
Distribution
Endemic to Greece
Locus Typicus
Spilaio Megalo Spilaio
Region: Dytiki Ellada / Regional unit: Aitoloakarnania / Municipality: Aktio - Vonitsa / Closest settlement: Monastiraki
Distribution in caves of Greece
  • Spilaio Megalo Spilaio, Gasparo 2005a, Casale et al. 2013, Beron 2016, Mammola et al. 2017
    Region: Dytiki Ellada / Regional unit: Aitoloakarnania / Municipality: Aktio - Vonitsa / Closest settlement: Monastiraki
  • Spilaio Melissotrypa, Popa et al. 2019
    Region: Thessalia / Regional unit: Larisa / Municipality: Elassona / Closest settlement: Kefalovryso
Comments

Known only from two caves

IUCN Red List
NE - Not Evaluated
Greece's Red Data Book
NE - Not Evaluated
Protection status
  • There is no species-specific legal framework for protection.
Check Databases
Fauna Europea
GBIF
PESI
Species references
  • Beron, P. 2016. Faune cavernicole de la Grèce. Maison d'édition Est-West., Sofia. pp. 229.
  • Casale, A., Giachino, P. M. & Vailati, D. 2013. Tre nuove specie di Coleotteri sotterranei di Grecia (Coleoptera: Carabidae e Cholevidae). Boll. Soc. Entom. It., 145 (1): 9-25.
  • Gasparo, F. 2005. Note sulle Histopona Thorell, 1869, del gruppo Myops di Grecia, con descrizione di una nuova specie cavernicola (Araneae, Agelenidae). Atti Memorie Commissione Grotte "E. Boegan", 40: 17-35.
  • Mammola S, Cardoso P, Ribera C, Pavlek M, Isaia M. 2017. A synthesis on cave-dwelling spiders in Europe. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research:1–16
  • Popa, I., Brad, T., Vaxevanopoulos, M., Giurginca, A., Baba, S.C., Iepure, S., Plaiasu, R., Sarbu, S.M. 2019. Rich and diverse subterranean invertebrate communities inhabiting Melissotrypa Cave in Central Greece.. Trav. Inst. Spéol. «Émile Racovitza», 58: 65–78.
Citation
Paragamian, K. 2025. Histopona thaleri Gasparo, 2005. In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Species data updated 10.03.2020, Accessed 09.10.2025