Troglophile invertebrate caves

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Common name:

Habitat code:

H1.24

Description:

Caves harbouring communities that include no troglobiont organisms, but include troglophile invertebrates. Generally, they are caves crossed by watercourses.

References:

Devillers, P., Devillers-Terschuren, J. and Vander Linden, C., 2001 Riedel A., 1985 Deltshev CH., S. LAZAROV & G. BLAGOEV, 2004 Beron P., B. Petrov & P. Stoev, 2004 Stoev P., 2004 Gueorguiev B., 2004 Hurka K., 1972 Beshkov S. & H. Wegner, 2004 Dafis S., E. Papastergiadou, K. Georghiou, D. Babalonas, T. Georgiadis, M. Papageorgiou, T. Lazaridou & V. Tsiaoussi, 1996

Important species scientific name	Corresponding species comments
Nycteribia (Nycteribia) schmidli Schinner, 1853	Parasite
Anemadus graecus (Kraatz, 1870)
Balcanodiscus cerberus Riedel, 1985
Balcanodiscus frivaldskyanus (Rossmaessler, 1842)
Centromerus milleri Deltshev, 1974
Palliduphantes istrianus (Kulczynski, 1914)
Meta menardi (Latreille, 1804)
Metellina merianae (Scopoli, 1763)
Rhodopiella beroni (Strasser, 1966)
Trechus austriacus Dejean, 1831
Sulcia cretica Fage, 1945
Lepthyphantes beshkovi Deltshev, 1979
Austropotamobius torrentium (Schrank, 1803)
Nesticus cellulanus (Clerck, 1757)
Alucita huebneri Wallengren, 1859
Nycteribia (Acrocholidia) vexata Westwood, 1835	Parasite
Nycteribia (Nycteribia) pedicularia Latreille, 1805	Parasite
Nycteribia (Nycteribia) latreillei (Leach, 1817)	Parasite
Eupolybothrus transsylvanicus (Latzel, 1882)

Code in legal instrument
Legal instrument	Habitat type legal name	Habitat type legal code
EU Habitats Directive Annex I	Caves not open to the public	65.4
Bern Convention 1996	Caves	65.4

Sites in which this biotope type has been recorded
EUNIS Site Code	Greek Natura 2000 code	Site name
A00010002	GR1110005	VOUNA TOU EVROU
GR1110002	GR1110002	DASOS DADIAS-SOUFLI
GR1130008	GR1130008	MARONEIA-SPILAION