Fauna of Macedonia | |
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![]() Macedonia. Location. | |
Continent |
Europe |
Realm(s) |
Palearctic |
Predominant harvestmen (from HarvEx) |
Phalangiidae; Nemastomatidae; Sironidae; Trogulidae |
Diversity (Project WCO) |
30 species (18 endemic) |
Balkans |
Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia |
North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a country in the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in September 1991 under the name Republic of Macedonia.
North Macedonia is a landlocked country that is geographically clearly defined by a central valley formed by the Vardar river and framed along its borders by mountain ranges. The terrain is mostly rugged, located between the Šar Mountains and Osogovo, which frame the valley of the Vardar river. Three large lakes – Lake Ohrid, Lake Prespa and Dojran Lake – lie on the southern borders, bisected by the frontiers with Albania and Greece. Ohrid is considered to be one of the oldest lakes and biotopes in the world.
Macedonia has the 63rd most diverse opilionofauna in the world with 30 species recorded.
This category is for harvestmen officially recorded from Macedonia, repositories of Macedonian Opiliones and authors who worked on Macedonian opilionofauna.
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