Dolichopoda kalithea Di Russo & Rampini, 2012

Higher Taxonomy

Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Family: Rhaphidophoridae
Genus: Dolichopoda

Characterisation

Troglophile

Distribution

Endemic to Greece

Locus Typicus

Spilaio Panagias Kakoperatianis
Region: Voreio Aigaio / Regional unit: Samos / Municipality: Samos / Closest settlement: Kosmadaioi

Distribution in caves of Greece

• Spilaio Panagias Kakoperatianis, Rampini et al. 2012, Di Russo et al. 2014, Beron 2016
  Region: Voreio Aigaio / Regional unit: Samos / Municipality: Samos / Closest settlement: Kosmadaioi
• Spilaio Panagias Sarantaskaliotisas, Di Russo et al. 2014
  Region: Voreio Aigaio / Regional unit: Samos / Municipality: Samos / Closest settlement: Marathokambos

Comments

Known from 2 caves at eastern Samos.

IUCN Red List

VU - Vulnerable

Greece's Red Data Book

NE - Not Evaluated

Protection status

• There is no species-specific legal framework for protection.

Check Databases

Fauna Europea

GBIF

IUCN Red List

PESI

Species references

• Beron, P. 2016. Faune cavernicole de la Grèce. Maison d'édition Est-West., Sofia. pp. 229.
• Di Russo, C., Rampini, M. & Cobolli, M. 2014. The cave crickets of Greece: a contribution to the study of Southern Balkan Rhaphidophoridae diversity (Orthoptera), with the description of a new species of Troglophilus Krauss , 1879. Biodiversity Journal, 5 (3): 397-420.
• Rampini, M., Di Russo, C., Taylan, M. S., Gelosa, A. & Cobolli, M. 2012. Four new species of Dolichopoda Bolivar, 1880 from Southern Sporades and Western Turkey (Orthoptera, Rhaphidophoridae, Dolichopodainae). ZooKeys, 201: 43-58.

Citation

Paragamian, K. 2026. Dolichopoda kalithea Di Russo & Rampini, 2012. In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Species data updated 28.05.2021, Accessed 19.04.2026