Subtroglophile invertebrate caves

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Common name:

Habitat code:

H1.25

Description:

Caves essential to parts of the life-cycle (quiescence period) of invertebrate subtroglophiles (elective periodic trogloxenes), such as Lepidoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera, Coleoptera; in general they are stably cool (or warm) and humid caves.

References:

Devillers, P., Devillers-Terschuren, J. and Vander Linden, C., 2001 Andreev S., 1986 Beron P., B. Petrov & P. Stoev, 2004 Matic Z. & G. Stavropulos, 1988 Gueorguiev B., 2004 Kumanski K., 2004 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
Laemostenus (Pristonychus) cimmerius (Fischer von Waldheim, 1832)
Ligidium herzegovinense Verhoeff, 1901
Amphipyra effusa (Boisduval, 1828)
Micropterna malaspina Schmid, 1955
Lithobius viriatus Sselivanoff, 1878

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	Source	Greek Natura 2000 code	Site name
GR1110002		GR1110002	DASOS DADIAS-SOUFLI
GR1130008		GR1130008	MARONEIA-SPILAION