Harpactea strinatii Brignoli, 1979

Higher Taxonomy
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Dysderidae
Genus: Harpactea
Characterisation
Troglobiont
Distribution
Endemic to 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, Brignoli 1979a, Brignoli 1979b, Bosmans & Chatzaki 2005, Beron 2016, Kunt et al. 2016, Gücel et al. 2019, Ballarin et al. 2020
    Region: Peloponnisos / Regional unit: Lakonia / Municipality: Anatoliki Mani / Closest settlement: Pyrgos Dirou
Comments

Only known from the type locality

IUCN Red List
CR - Critically Endangered
Greece's Red Data Book
CR - Critically Endangered
Protection status
  • There is no species-specific legal framework for protection.
Check Databases
Fauna Europea
GBIF
IUCN Red List
PESI
Species references
  • Ballarin F., Salmaso R. & Latella L. 2020. The arachnological collections of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale of Verona (Italy): an overview. Arachnologische Mitteilungen, 60:23-26
  • Beron, P. 2016. Faune cavernicole de la Grèce. Maison d'édition Est-West., Sofia. pp. 229.
  • 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.
  • Brignoli, P. M. 1979. Considérations zoogéographiques sur les Araignées cavernicoles de Grèce. Biol. gallo-hellen., 8: 223-236.
  • Gücel S, Charalambidou I, Göçmen B, Kunt KB. 2019. New data of spiders (Arachnida , Araneae) of Cyprus. 1. Dysderidae found in caves. ZooKeys 825:43–53.
  • Kunt, K. B., Özkütük, R. S., Elverici, M., Marusik, Y. M., Karakaş, G. 2016. Harpactea karaschkhan sp. n., a new cave-dwelling blind spider species from the Mediterranean region of Turkey. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 78(1): 36-40
Citation
Paragamian, K. 2026. Harpactea strinatii Brignoli, 1979. In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Species data updated 17.11.2025, Accessed 03.04.2026