Amaurobius candia Thaler & Knoflach, 2002

Higher Taxonomy

Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Amaurobiidae
Genus: Amaurobius

Characterisation

Trogloxene

Distribution

Endemic to Greece

Locus Typicus

Spilaio Idaio Antro
Region: Kriti / Regional unit: Rethymno / Municipality: Anogeia / Closest settlement: Anogeia

Distribution in caves of Greece

• Spilaio Kamilari, Naumova et al. 2016
  Region: Kriti / Regional unit: Irakleio / Municipality: Malevizi / Closest settlement: Tylisos
• Spilaio Idaio Antro, Thaler & Knoflach 2002
  Region: Kriti / Regional unit: Rethymno / Municipality: Anogeia / Closest settlement: Anogeia

Comments

Endemic to Crete (central and eastern part).

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

• 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.
• Thaler K. & Knoflach B. 2002. A superspecies in the genus Amaurobius on Crete, and additional records from Greece (Araneae: Amaurobiidae). In: Toft, S. & N. Scharff (eds.) European Arachnology 2000: Proceedings of the 19th European Colloquium of Arachnology. Aarhus University Press, pp. 337-344

Citation

Paragamian, K. 2026. Amaurobius candia Thaler & Knoflach, 2002. In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Species data updated 01.06.2021, Accessed 18.04.2026