Hauseriola minoica Osella, 1980

Higher Taxonomy

Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Curculionidae
Genus: Hauseriola

Characterisation

Troglophile

Distribution

Endemic to Greece

Locus Typicus

Spilaio Neraidospilios
Region: Kriti / Regional unit: Irakleio / Municipality: Chersonisos / Closest settlement: Karteros

Distribution in caves of Greece

• Spilaio Neraidospilios , Osella 1980, Osella et al. 1993, Osella & Zuppa 1998, Hlaváč & Maughan 2013, Beron 2016, Morrone & Hlaváč 2017
  Region: Kriti / Regional unit: Irakleio / Municipality: Chersonisos / Closest settlement: Karteros

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.
• Hlaváč, P. & Maughan, N. 2013. Cossoninae.. In: Löbl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 8. Curculionoidea II. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, pp. 217–229.
• Morrone J. & Hlaváč P. 2017. Checklist of the micro- and anophthalmic soil-dwelling weevils of the world (Coleoptera: Curculionidae).. Zootaxa, 4239:1–102.
• Osella, G. & Zuppa, A. M. 1998. Coleoptera Curculionoidea. In: Juberthie, C. & Decu, V. Encyclopaedia Biospeologica II. Publisher. pp. 1123-1130.
• Osella, G. 1980. Due nuovi Curculionidi anoftalmi del Mediterraneo orientale (Coleoptera). (XXIII. Contributo alla conoscenza della Curculionidofauna endogea). Rev. suisse Zool., 87 (3): 813-819.
• Osella, G., Zuppa, A.M. & Lodos, N. 1993. I Cossoninae d'Anatolia e regioni viciniori (Coleoptera, Curculionidae). Fragm. Entomol., 24: 243–305.

Citation

Paragamian, K. 2026. Hauseriola minoica Osella, 1980. In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Species data updated 01.06.2021, Accessed 18.04.2026