Dolichopoda makrykapa Boudou-Saltet, 1980

Higher Taxonomy
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Family: Rhaphidophoridae
Genus: Dolichopoda
Characterisation
Troglophile
Distribution
Endemic to Greece
Locus Typicus
Spilaio Pigi Nymfis
Region: Sterea Ellada / Regional unit: Evvoia / Municipality: Dirfys - Messapies / Closest settlement: Makrykapa
Distribution in caves of Greece
  • Spilaio Pigi Nymfis, Boudou-Saltet 1980, Willemse 1984, Boudou-Saltet 1985, Rampini et al. 2012, Alexiou et al. 2013, Di Russo et al. 2014, Alexiou et al. 2015, Beron 2016
    Region: Sterea Ellada / Regional unit: Evvoia / Municipality: Dirfys - Messapies / Closest settlement: Makrykapa
  • Spilaio Chiliadous, Allegrucci et al. 2011, Di Russo et al. 2014, Allegrucci et al. 2021
    Region: Sterea Ellada / Regional unit: Evvoia / Municipality: Dirfys - Messapies / Closest settlement: Paralia Chiliadou
  • Spilaio Agias Triadas Aboudiotisas, Allegrucci et al. 2011, Di Russo et al. 2014, Allegrucci et al. 2021
    Region: Sterea Ellada / Regional unit: Evvoia / Municipality: Eretria / Closest settlement: Kato Seta
  • Spilaio Skoteini, Di Russo et al. 2014
    Region: Sterea Ellada / Regional unit: Evvoia / Municipality: Kymi - Aliveri / Closest settlement: Tharounia
Comments

Known from 4 caves in central Evvoia.

IUCN Red List
LC - Least Concern
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
NCBI
Species references
  • Alexiou, S., Di Russo, C. & Rampini, M. 2013. The family Rhaphidophoridae (Orthoptera) in Greece. Parnassiana Archives, 1: 51-58.
  • Alexiou, S., Di Russo, C. & Rampini, M. 2015. The cave crickets of the genus Dolichopoda from Evvia and Skyros islands : formal description of D. octhoniai and D. saraolacosi (Orthoptera : Rhaphidophoridae). Fragm. Entomol., 47 (2): 133-137.
  • Allegrucci, G., Trucchi, E. & Sbordoni, V. 2011. Tempo and mode of species diversification in Dolichopoda cave crickets (Orthoptera, Rhaphidophoridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 60 (1): 108-121.
  • Allegrucci G, Rampini M, Chimenti C, Alexiou S & Di Russo C. 2021. Dolichopoda cave crickets from Peloponnese (Orthoptera, Rhaphidophoridae): molecular and morphological investigations reveal four new species for Greece. The European Zoological Journal, 88(1): 505-524, DOI: 10.1080/24750263.2021.1902005
  • Beron, P. 2016. Faune cavernicole de la Grèce. Maison d'édition Est-West., Sofia. pp. 229.
  • Boudou-Saltet, P. 1980. Les Dolichopodes (Orth. Rhaph.) de Grèce IX. Une espèce nouvelle en Eubée: Dolichopoda makrykapa. Biol. gallo-hellen., 9 (1): 123-134.
  • Boudou-Saltet, P. 1985. Etat actuel de nos connaissances sur les orthoptères cavernicoles de Grèce. Biol. gallo-hellen., 10: 259-263.
  • 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.
  • Willemse, F. 1984. Catalogue of the Orthoptera of Greece. Fauna Graeciae I. Hellenic Zoological Society. pp. 275.
Citation
Paragamian, K. 2026. Dolichopoda makrykapa Boudou-Saltet, 1980. 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