Neobisium odysseum (Beier, 1929)

Higher Taxonomy
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Pseudoscorpionida
Family: Neobisiidae
Genus: Neobisium
Characterisation
Troglobiont
Distribution
Endemic to Greece
Locus Typicus
Anonymus cave at Pantokrator Mt.
Region: Ionioi Nisoi / Regional unit: Kerkyra / Municipality: Kerkyra / Closest settlement: Barbati
Distribution in caves of Greece
  • Spilaio Katsouri, Beier 1929a, Beier 1932, Wolf 1937a, Wolf 1938, Mahnert 1975, Beron 2016
    Region: Ionioi Nisoi / Regional unit: Kerkyra / Municipality: Kerkyra / Closest settlement: Apolysoi
  • Anonymus cave at Pantokrator Mt., Beier 1929a, Beier 1932, Wolf 1937a, Wolf 1938, Mahnert 1975, Beron 2016
    Region: Ionioi Nisoi / Regional unit: Kerkyra / Municipality: Kerkyra / Closest settlement: Barbati
Comments

Only known from 2 caves in Kerkyra island. Beier (1929a) described Obisium (=Neobisium) odysseum from a specimen collected from an unnamed stalactite cave at Pantokrator Mt, Pantokrator above Barbati ["…1 adultes Exemplar, Korfu, in einer unbenannteng großen tropfsteingrotte um Pantokrator oberhalb von Barbati, etwa 200m ü M., 3.IV.1929…"]. This could be the cave Spilaio Katsouri.

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
  • Beier, M. 1929. Zoologische Forschungreise nach den Jonischen Inseln und dem Peloponnes. I und II Teil (Pseudoscorpionidea). Sber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-naturw. Kl. Abt. I, 138 (8): 425-456.
  • Beier, M. 1932. Pseudoscorpionidea I. Subord Chthoniinea et Neobisiinea. Das Tierreich, 57: 1-258.
  • Beron, P. 2016. Faune cavernicole de la Grèce. Maison d'édition Est-West., Sofia. pp. 229.
  • Mahnert, V. 1975. Griechische Höhlenpseudoskorpione. Rev. suisse Zool., 82 (1): 169-184.
  • Wolf, B. 1937. Animalium Cavernarum Catalogus. I. - Praefatio, introductio, bibliographia. Junk Verl., Wien (1934-1937). pp. 106.
  • Wolf, B. 1938. Animalium Cavernarum Catalogus. III. - Animalium Catalogus. Junk Verl., Wien (1934-1938). pp. 918.
Citation
Paragamian, K. 2026. Neobisium odysseum (Beier, 1929). In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Species data updated 05.01.2025, Accessed 17.04.2026