Arachnida, Scorpiones, Chactidae, Euscorpius carpathicus Linnč, 1758 - This scorpion has been found by the author near the entrance of the Bossea Cave, as a proof that it is an occasional subtroglophile that take advantage from the cave's zones near the outside where it can find coolness and maybe capture some troglophile insect that lives here. The author found scorpions in other caves of the Piemonte, but always on the soil near the entrance, where frequently the stones that fall from the vault reproduce the hypolithic habitat where usually this animals live. (Real size: about 3 cm).

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