Amaurorhinus hauseri Osella, 1983

Higher Taxonomy
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Curculionidae
Genus: Amaurorhinus
Characterisation
Troglophile
Distribution
Endemic to Greece
Locus Typicus
Spilaio Katafygi Dirou
Region: Peloponnisos / Regional unit: Lakonia / Municipality: Anatoliki Mani / Closest settlement: Pyrgos Dirou
Distribution in caves of Greece
  • Spilaio Katafygi Dirou, Osella 1983, Osella & Pogliano Osella 1986, Osella et al. 1993, Osella & Zuppa 1998, Hlaváč & Maughan 2013, Beron 2016, Morrone & Hlaváč 2017
    Region: Peloponnisos / Regional unit: Lakonia / Municipality: Anatoliki Mani / Closest settlement: Pyrgos Dirou
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.
  • Hlaváč, P. & Maughan, N. 2013. Cossoninae.. In: Löbl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 8. Curculionoidea II. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, pp. 217–229.
  • Morrone J. & Hlaváč P. 2017. Checklist of the micro- and anophthalmic soil-dwelling weevils of the world (Coleoptera: Curculionidae).. Zootaxa, 4239:1–102.
  • Osella, G. & Pogliano Osella, M. 1986. Nuovi curculionidi endogei del Mediterraneo occidentale (Coleoptera).. Boll. Mus. civ. St. nat. Verona, 11: 53–68.
  • Osella, G. & Zuppa, A. M. 1998. Coleoptera Curculionoidea. In: Juberthie, C. & Decu, V. Encyclopaedia Biospeologica II. Publisher. pp. 1123-1130.
  • Osella, G. 1983. Amaurorrhinus hauseri n. sp. del Peloponneso (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cossoninae). Rev. suisse Zool., 90 (3): 533-536.
  • Osella, G., Zuppa, A.M. & Lodos, N. 1993. I Cossoninae d'Anatolia e regioni viciniori (Coleoptera, Curculionidae). Fragm. Entomol., 24: 243–305.
Citation
Paragamian, K. 2026. Amaurorhinus hauseri Osella, 1983. 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