Harpactea rubicunda (C. L. Koch, 1838)

Higher Taxonomy

Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Dysderidae
Genus: Harpactea

Characterisation

Troglophile

Distribution

Europe to Georgia

Distribution in caves of Greece

• Spilaio Irakleitsas, Roewer 1959, Brignoli 1979a, Bosmans & Chatzaki 2005, Beron 2016
  Region: Anatoliki Makedonia-Thraki / Regional unit: Kavala / Municipality: Pangaio / Closest settlement: Nea Irakleitsa
• Spilaio Thalassinou, Roewer 1959, Brignoli 1979a, Bosmans & Chatzaki 2005, Beron et al. 2011, Beron 2016
  Region: Anatoliki Makedonia-Thraki / Regional unit: Xanthi / Municipality: Topeiros / Closest settlement: Galani
• Spilaio Pestereta, Roewer 1959, Brignoli 1979a, Bosmans & Chatzaki 2005, Beron 2016
  Region: Kentriki Makedonia / Regional unit: Serres / Municipality: Serres / Closest settlement: Oreini

Comments

Brignoli (1979) considers doubtful the citations of the species by Roewer (1959)

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

NCBI

Species references

• Beron, P. 2016. Faune cavernicole de la Grèce. Maison d'édition Est-West., Sofia. pp. 229.
• Beron, P., Petrov, B. & Stoev, P. 2011. The invertebrate cave fauna of the Western Rhodopes (Bulgaria and Greece). Pages 583-662 in Beron P. (ed.) Biodiversity of Bulgaria. 4. Biodiversity of Western Rhodopes (Bulgaria and Greece) II. Pensoft & Nat. Mus. Natur. Hist. Sofia,
• Bosmans, R. & Chatzaki, M. 2005. A catalogue of the spiders of Greece. A critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Newsletter Belg. Arachn. Soc., 20 (2): 1-124.
• Brignoli, P. M. 1979. Ragni di Grecia XI. Specie nuove o interessanti, cavernicole ed epigee. Rev. suisse Zool., 86 (1): 181-202.
• Roewer, C. F. 1959. Die Araneae, Solifuga und Opiliones der Sammlungen des Herrn Dr. K. Lindberg aus Griechenland, Creta, Anatolien, Iran und Indien. Göteborgs kungl. vet. vitterh. Samh. Handl., 8 (4): 3-47.

Citation

Paragamian, K. 2025. Harpactea rubicunda (C. L. Koch, 1838). In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Species data updated 13.02.2018, Accessed 17.10.2025