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Fauna of Greece

Greece. Location.

Continent

Europe

Realm(s)

Palearctic

Predominant harvestmen (from HarvEx)

Phalangiidae; Nemastomatidae; Trogulidae; Sclerosomatidae

Diversity (Project WCO)

83 species (41 endemic)

Balkans

Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia


Greece is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Situated on the southern tip of the Balkan Peninsula. Eighty percent of Greece is mountainous, with Mount Olympus being the highest peak at 2,918 metres.

Greece has the 27th most diverse opilionofauna in the world with more than 80 species recorded.

This category is for harvestmen officially recorded from Greece, repositories of Greek Opiliones and authors who worked on Greek opilionofauna.

Checklists[]

Pavesi 1878 [1].

References[]

  1. Pavesi, P. (1878a) Nuovi risultati aracnologici delle Crociere del "Violante". Aggiunto un catalogo sistematico degli Aracnidi di Grecia. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova, 11, 337–396.

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