Lepthyphantes beshkovi Deltshev, 1979

Higher Taxonomy

Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Lepthyphantes

Characterisation

Troglobiont

Distribution

Endemic to Greece

Locus Typicus

Spilaio Tzani Spilios
Region: Kriti / Regional unit: Chania / Municipality: Platanias / Closest settlement: Lakkoi

Distribution in caves of Greece

• Spilaio Tzani Spilios, Brignoli 1971b, Deltshev 1979, Bosmans & Chatzaki 2005, Beron 2016
  Region: Kriti / Regional unit: Chania / Municipality: Platanias / Closest settlement: Lakkoi
• Anonymous cave at Zoniana, Naumova et al. 2016
  Region: Kriti / Regional unit: Rethymno / Municipality: Mylopotamos / Closest settlement: Zoniana

Comments

Only known from caves in Kriti.

IUCN Red List

NT - Near Threatened

Greece's Red Data Book

NT - Near Threatened

Protection status

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

Check Databases

Fauna Europea

GBIF

IUCN Red List

PESI

Species references

• 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.
• Brignoli, P. M. 1971. Su alcuni Lepthyphantes di Creta (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Fragm. Entomol., 7 (4): 231-241.
• Deltshev, C. 1979. A contribution to the study of Cave Spiders (Araneae) in Greece. Four new species (Aaraneae, Nesticidae, Linyphiidae) from the Islands of Crete and Thera. Acta Zool. Bulg., 13: 53-63.
• 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.

Citation

Paragamian, K. 2026. Lepthyphantes beshkovi Deltshev, 1979. In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Species data updated 17.11.2025, Accessed 18.04.2026