Harpactea persephone Gasparo, 2011

Higher Taxonomy

Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Dysderidae
Genus: Harpactea

Characterisation

Troglobiont

Distribution

Endemic to Greece

Locus Typicus

Spilaio Kourna
Region: Kriti / Regional unit: Chania / Municipality: Apokoronas / Closest settlement: Kournas

Distribution in caves of Greece

• Spilaio Kourna, Gasparo 2011b, Bosmans et al. 2013, Kunt et al. 2016, Gücel et al. 2019
  Region: Kriti / Regional unit: Chania / Municipality: Apokoronas / Closest settlement: Kournas

Comments

Only known from the type locality

IUCN Red List

NE - Not Evaluated

Greece's Red Data Book

NT - Near Threatened

Protection status

• There is no species-specific legal framework for protection.

Check Databases

GBIF

Species references

• Bosmans, R., Van Keer, J., Russell-Smith, A., Kronestedt, T., Alderweireldt, M., Bosselaers, J. & De Koninck, H. 2013. Spiders of Crete (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from the Greek Island of Crete. Newsletter Belg. Arachn. Soc., 28 (1): 1-147.
• Gasparo, F. 2011. Una Nuova Harpactea Cavernicola Di Creta (Araneae, Dysderidae). Atti e memorie della commisione grotte "E. Boegan", 43: 57-65.
• Gücel S, Charalambidou I, Göçmen B, Kunt KB. 2019. New data of spiders (Arachnida , Araneae) of Cyprus. 1. Dysderidae found in caves. ZooKeys 825:43–53.
• Kunt, K. B., Özkütük, R. S., Elverici, M., Marusik, Y. M., Karakaş, G. 2016. Harpactea karaschkhan sp. n., a new cave-dwelling blind spider species from the Mediterranean region of Turkey. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 78(1): 36-40

Citation

Paragamian, K. 2026. Harpactea persephone Gasparo, 2011. In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Species data updated 16.11.2025, Accessed 18.04.2026