Duvalius comottii Casale, Gianchino, Vailati & Vigna Taglianti, 1996

Higher Taxonomy

Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Carabidae
Genus: Duvalius

Characterisation

Troglobiont

Distribution

Endemic to Greece

Locus Typicus

Cave south of Epos
Region: Ipeiros / Regional unit: Ioannina / Municipality: Zagori / Closest settlement: Papigko

Distribution in caves of Greece

• Cave south of Epos, Casale et al. 1993, Casale et al. 1996, Beron 2016, Hlaváč et al. 2017
  Region: Ipeiros / Regional unit: Ioannina / Municipality: Zagori / Closest settlement: Papigko

Comments

Only known from the type locality.

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.
• Casale, A., Giachino, P. M., Vailati, D. & Rampini, M. 1993. Il genere Duvalius in Grecia: stato attuale delle conoscenze, interesse biogeografico e descrizione di una nuova specie (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Trechinae). Boll. Mus. civ. St. nat. Verona, 20 (1): 303-335.
• Casale, A., Giachino, P. M., Vailati, D. & Vigna Taglianti, A. 1996. Specie nuove o poco note del genere Duvalius in Grecia (Coleoptera, Carabidae). Fragm. Entomol., 27 (2): 289-346.
• Hlaváč, P., Perreau, M. & Čeplík D. 2017. The Subterranean Beetles of the Balkan Peninsula: Carabidae, Leiodidae, Staphylinidae, Scarabaeidae, Bothrideridae, Zopheridae, Salpingidae, Brachyceridae, Curculionidae.. Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Praha, Chez Republic. 267 pp.

Citation

Paragamian, K. 2026. Duvalius comottii Casale, Gianchino, Vailati & Vigna Taglianti, 1996. In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Species data updated 18.09.2019, Accessed 07.07.2026