Medon petrochilosi Coiffait, 1970

Higher Taxonomy

Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Staphylinidae
Genus: Medon

Characterisation

Troglophile?

Distribution

Croatia, Greece

Locus Typicus

Spilaio Glyfadas Dirou
Region: Peloponnisos / Regional unit: Lakonia / Municipality: Anatoliki Mani / Closest settlement: Pyrgos Dirou

Distribution in caves of Greece

• Spilaio Glyfadas Dirou, Coiffait 1970, Coiffait 1976, Beron 2016, Assing 2017
  Region: Peloponnisos / Regional unit: Lakonia / Municipality: Anatoliki Mani / Closest settlement: Pyrgos Dirou

Comments

Synonymy: Medon croaticus Tóth, 1980 (Assing 2004) 

IUCN Red List

NE - Not Evaluated

Greece's Red Data Book

NE - Not Evaluated

Protection status

• Presidential Decree 67/1981 on the protection of native flora and fauna species (OGG 23/A/1981)

Check Databases

Fauna Europea

GBIF

PESI

Species references

• Assing, V. 2017. On the Staphylinidae of the Greek island Ikaría, with supplementary notes on the fauna of Samos (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Koleopterologische Rundschau 87: 89-116
• Beron, P. 2016. Faune cavernicole de la Grèce. Maison d'édition Est-West., Sofia. pp. 229.
• Coiffait, H. 1970. Un nouveau Medon cavernicole du Péloponnèse. Ann. Speleol., 25 (1): 231-233.
• Coiffait, H. 1976. Clef de determination des Medon de la région paleartique occidentale avec description d' une espèce cavernicole nouvelle. Ann. Speleol., 31: 229-243.

Citation

Paragamian, K. 2026. Medon petrochilosi Coiffait, 1970. In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Species data updated 24.04.2018, Accessed 21.05.2026