Hyleoglomeris epirotica (Mauriès, 1966)

Higher Taxonomy
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Diplopoda
Order: Glomerida
Family: Glomeridae
Genus: Hyleoglomeris
Characterisation
Troglobiont
Distribution
Endemic to Greece
Locus Typicus
Spilaio Peramatos
Region: Ipeiros / Regional unit: Ioannina / Municipality: Ioannina / Closest settlement: Perama
Distribution in caves of Greece
  • Spilaio Peramatos, Mauriès 1966, Strasser 1974, Strasser 1976, Mauriès 1984a, Thaler 2000, Golovatch 2013a, Makarov et al. 2013, Beron 2016
    Region: Ipeiros / Regional unit: Ioannina / Municipality: Ioannina / Closest settlement: Perama
Comments

Only known from the type locality.

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.
  • Golovatch, S. I. 2013. Three new species of the millipede genus Hyleoglomeris Verhoeff, 1910 from the Aegean region of Greece (Diplopoda, Glomerida, Glomeridae). Biodiversity Data Journal, 1 (e1000): 1-13.
  • Makarov SE, Ćurčić BPM, Antić DŽ, Tomić VT, Ćurčić ĆSB, Ilić B, Lučić LR. 2013. A new cave species of the genus Hyleoglomeris Verhoeff, 1910, from the Balkan Peninsula (Diplopoda: Glomerida: Glomeridae). Archive of Biological Sciences, 65(1):341–344
  • Mauriès, J. P. 1966. Découverte, par H. Coiffait, de représentants de genres Speleoglomeris Silv. et Trichoblaniulus Verh. dans les grottes de Grèce (Diplopoda). Ann. Speleol., 21 (3): 621-630.
  • Mauriès, J. P. 1984. Ecologie et biogéographie des Cyclades. Deux espèces nouvelles de Diplopodes cavernicoles des Cyclades: Hyleoglomeris beroni (Glomerida) et Syrioiulus andreevi (Iulida). Biol. gallo-hellen., 11 (1): 37-49.
  • Strasser, K. 1974. Über Diplopoda-Chilognatha Griechenlands. Rev. suisse Zool., 81 (1): 219-300.
  • Strasser, K. 1976. Über Diplopoda-Chilognatha Griechenlands II. Rev. suisse Zool., 83 (3): 579-645.
  • Thaler K. 2000. Über Kugeltausendfüßer aus Griechenland und Zypern (Diplopoda, Glomerida). Entomol. Nachr. Ber. 43:195–201.
Citation
Paragamian, K. 2026. Hyleoglomeris epirotica (Mauriès, 1966). In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Species data updated 16.09.2019, Accessed 07.07.2026