Eukoenenia naxos Condé, 1990

Higher Taxonomy
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Palpigradi
Family: Eukoeneniidae
Genus: Eukoenenia
Characterisation
Troglobiont
Distribution
Endemic to Greece
Locus Typicus
Spilaio Agiou Ioanni
Region: Notio Aigaio / Regional unit: Naxos / Municipality: Naxos & Mikres Kyklades / Closest settlement: Irakleia
Distribution in caves of Greece
  • Spilaio Agiou Ioanni, Condé 1987, Condé 1989, Condé 1998, Harvey 2003, Christian et al. 2012, Beron 2016, Beron 2018, Mammola et al. 2021
    Region: Notio Aigaio / Regional unit: Naxos / Municipality: Naxos & Mikres Kyklades / Closest settlement: Irakleia
Comments

Only known from the type locality. Eukoenenia sp. record from the cave of Agios Ioannis (Condé 1987) was later described as E. naxos (Condé 1990 & 1996).

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.
  • Beron P. 2018. Zoogeography of Arachnida. Monographiae Biologicae 94:1–987. Springer International Publishing.
  • Christian E, Kováč L, Ozimec R, Polak S, Zagmajster M. 2012. Distribution and morphology of the European Karst palpigrade Eukoenenia gasparoi (Arachnida: Palpigradi). Journal of Arachnology 40:265–273. Available from http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1636/Ha12-27.1.
  • Condé, B. 1987. Les Palpigrades du nouveau monde: état des connaissances.. Mémoires de la Société Royale Belge d'Entomologie, 33: 67-73.
  • Condé, B. 1989. Palpigrades (Arachnida) des grottes d΄ Europe. Rev. suisse Zool., 96 (4): 823-840.
  • Condé, B. 1998. Palpigradida. In Juberthie, C.;Decu, V. Encyclopaedia Biospeologica II. Publisher. pp. 913-920.
  • Harvey, M. S. 2003. Catalogue of the Smaller Arachnid Orders of the World. Amblypygi, Uropygi, Schizomida, Palpigradi, Ricinulei and Solifugae. CSIRO Publishing. pp. 398.
  • Mammola S, Fernanda M, Rezende V, Marco S, Ferreira RL. 2021. Global distribution of microwhip scorpions (Arachnida: Palpigradi). Journal of Biogeography, 00:1–13.
Citation
Paragamian, K. 2026. Eukoenenia naxos Condé, 1990. In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Species data updated 28.03.2021, Accessed 18.04.2026