Absoloniella nitidipennis (Osella, 1989)

Higher Taxonomy

Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Erirhinidae
Genus: Absoloniella

Characterisation

Troglophile?

Distribution

Endemic to Greece

Locus Typicus

Spilaio Agiou Ioanni
Region: Notio Aigaio / Regional unit: Naxos / Municipality: Naxos & Mikres Kyklades / Closest settlement: Irakleia

Distribution in caves of Greece

• Spilaio Agiou Ioanni, Osella 1989, Caladra 2011, Grebennikov 2014, Beron 2016, Morrone & Hlaváč 2017
  Region: Notio Aigaio / Regional unit: Naxos / Municipality: Naxos & Mikres Kyklades / Closest settlement: Irakleia

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.
• Caladra, R 2011. Erirhinidae.. In: Löbl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 7. Curculionoidea I. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, pp. 192–198.
• Grebennikov, V. V. 2014. A new concept of Absoloniella (=Ruffodytes syn. n.) for five blind Mediterranean species (Coleoptera: Brachyceridae: Erirhininae). Zootaxa, 3866 (1): 122-130.
• 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. 1989. Due nuovi Curcudionidi endogei (Coleoptera) (XXXTV. Contributo alla connoscenza della curculionidofauna endogea). Rev. suisse Zool., 96 (2): 451-458.

Citation

Paragamian, K. 2026. Absoloniella nitidipennis (Osella, 1989). 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 18.04.2026