Cryptops dianae Stavropoulos & Matic, 1990

Higher Taxonomy

Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Chilopoda
Order: Scolopendromorpha
Family: Cryptopidae
Genus: Cryptops

Characterisation

Troglophile

Distribution

Endemic to Greece

Locus Typicus

Spilaio Drakotrypa
Region: Anatoliki Makedonia-Thraki / Regional unit: Kavala / Municipality: Thasos / Closest settlement: Panagia

Distribution in caves of Greece

• Spilaio Drakotrypa, Stavropoulos & Matic 1990, Matic & Stavropoulos 1993, Stoev & Beron 2000, Zapparoli 2002, Beron 2016
  Region: Anatoliki Makedonia-Thraki / Regional unit: Kavala / Municipality: Thasos / Closest settlement: Panagia
• Spilaio Melissotrypa, Popa et al. 2019
  Region: Thessalia / Regional unit: Larisa / Municipality: Elassona / Closest settlement: Kefalovryso

Comments

Only known from 2 caves (Drakotrypa cave in Thasos island and Melissotrypa cave in Larisa prefecture).

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

Species references

• Beron, P. 2016. Faune cavernicole de la Grèce. Maison d'édition Est-West., Sofia. pp. 229.
• Matic, Z. & Stavropoulos, G. 1993. Considerations zoogeographiques sur la faune des Chilopodes des îles de la Mer Egée et de la Mer Ionienne.. . Biol. gallo-hellen., 20: 99-106
• Popa, I., Brad, T., Vaxevanopoulos, M., Giurginca, A., Baba, S.C., Iepure, S., Plaiasu, R., Sarbu, S.M. 2019. Rich and diverse subterranean invertebrate communities inhabiting Melissotrypa Cave in Central Greece.. Trav. Inst. Spéol. «Émile Racovitza», 58: 65–78.
• Stavropoulos, G. & Matic, Z. 1990. Nouvelles contributions à l'étude de la faune de chilopodes. (Chilopoda) de Grèce. II.. Biol. gallo-hellen., 17: 37-47.
• Stoev, P. & Beron, P. 2000. On the type specimens of Myriapoda (Chilopoda, Diplopoda) in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia.. Arthropoda Selecta 9:91–102.
• Zapparoli, M. 2002. A catalogue of the centipedes from Greece (Chilopoda). Fragm. Entomol., 34 (1): 1-146.

Citation

Paragamian, K. 2026. Cryptops dianae Stavropoulos & Matic, 1990. In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Species data updated 01.06.2021, Accessed 31.01.2026