Laemostenus casalei Dubault & Lassalle, 1991

Higher Taxonomy

Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Carabidae
Genus: Laemostenus

Characterisation

Troglophile

Distribution

Endemic to Greece

Locus Typicus

Spilaio Varvaras
Region: Peloponnisos / Regional unit: Lakonia / Municipality: Sparti / Closest settlement: Kryoneri

Distribution in caves of Greece

• Spilaio Varvaras, Casale 1988, Dubault & Lassalle 1991, Casale & Lebenbauer 2010, Beron 2016
  Region: Peloponnisos / Regional unit: Lakonia / Municipality: Sparti / Closest settlement: Kryoneri

Comments

Known from few localities on Taygetos Mt. Erroneously reported as L. peloponnensiacus by Casale (1988)

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.
• Casale, A. & Lebenbauer, T. 2010. Notes on the Duvalius species of the Taygetos massif (Peloponnese, Southern Greece), with description of the male features of Duvalius (Duvalius) mirei Deuve, 2001 (Coleoptera, Carabidae). Fragm. Entomol., 42 (2): 395-404.
• Casale, A. 1988. Revisione degli Sphodrina (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Sphordini). Monographia V. Boll. Mus. reg. Sci. Nat. Torino. pp. 1012.
• Dubault, G. & Lassalle, B. 1991. Un nouveau Laemostenus de Grèce (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Sphodrini). L' Entomologist, 47 (2): 87-90.

Citation

Paragamian, K. 2026. Laemostenus casalei Dubault & Lassalle, 1991. In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Species data updated 18.09.2019, Accessed 08.04.2026