These are caves with palaeontological interest, exploited a lot as bones mines at the begin of the twentieth, also if in the following years they has been object of recurring excavations. The cavities are horizontal and the western one has been object in the nineties of speleological explorations and its developement has been enlarged a lot.

These caves are locus typicus of Eukoenenia spelaea and into them live the Diplopoda Plectogona vignai, the Chilopoda Lithobius scotophilus, the insect Carabide Trechinae Duvalius carantii and it's easy find the troglophile Carabidae Sphodropsis ghilianii, walking on the gravelly floor, Dolichopoda ligustica on the walls, together to Limonia nubeculosa and butterflies of the wall association. On the vault of the tunnels, near the multiple entrances we can observe troglophile spiders like Meta menardi (subtroglophile) and Nesticus eremita (eutroglophile). In the same zones, but on the soil and the walls, it's frequently present the "Geotritone" (Speleomantes strinatii). Moreover, specialists of Chiroptera have reported that in this caves have been captured 13 different species of bats.

SPECIFIC BIBLIOGRAPHY		BIOSPELEOLOGICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY		GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

Return to the page "Caves"			Systematic Index			Initial page HOME

  Some embellishments, Javascript, etc. have been modified from them situated on the site
"A SBAFO! All for the WEB gratis and in Italian... "; the author advise you to visit it.
 

BABEL ALTA VISTA - ON LINE TRANSLATOR