Plusiocampa lindbergi Condé, 1956

Higher Taxonomy

Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Entognatha
Order: Diplura
Family: Campodeidae
Genus: Plusiocampa

Characterisation

Troglobiont

Distribution

Endemic to Greece

Locus Typicus

Spilaio Pelade
Region: Kentriki Makedonia / Regional unit: Serres / Municipality: Serres / Closest settlement: Oinousa

Distribution in caves of Greece

• Mine gallery at Skala Rachoniou, Sendra et al. 2025
  Region: Anatoliki Makedonia-Thraki / Regional unit: Kavala / Municipality: Thasos / Closest settlement: Skala Rachoniou
• Spilaio Pelade, Condé 1956, Beron 2016, Sendra et al. 2020a, Sendra et al. 2025
  Region: Kentriki Makedonia / Regional unit: Serres / Municipality: Serres / Closest settlement: Oinousa

Comments

Only known from the type locality, a mine gallery at Thasos Island and from Mesovoid Shallow Substratum (MSS) at Gerakas near Xánthi.

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.
• Condé, B. 1956. Campodeides cavernicoles de Grèce. Notes biospeol., 11 (1): 7-12.
• Sendra A., Antić D., Barranco P., Borko Š., Christian E., Delić T., Fadrique F., Faille A., Galli L., Gasparo F., Georgiev D., Giachino P.M., Kováč L., Lukić M., Marcia P., Miculinić K., Nicolosi G., Palero F., Paragamian K., Pérez T., Polak S., Prieto C. 2020. Flourishing in subterranean ecosystems: Euro-Mediterranean Plusiocampinae and tachycampoids (Diplura, Campodeidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 591: 1–138. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2020.591
• Sendra A, Stoev P, Selfa J 2025. Cave-adapted Plusiocampinae (Diplura, Campodeidae) from the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 72(2): 317-340

Citation

Paragamian, K. 2026. Plusiocampa lindbergi Condé, 1956. In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Species data updated 23.11.2025, Accessed 18.04.2026