Peripodisma tymphii Willemse, 1972

Habitat:
Peripodisma tymphii inhabits most often stony mountain slopes between about 1450 and 2100m, in Greece often above 1700m.

Life cycle:
The adults appear in summer between about late June and August or September. I did not record any individual in late October 2024 in spots where Peripodisma tymphii proved to be common in late July 2025 on Mount Tymfi. The animals often stay on the ground, but sometimes also a little above in dwarf shrubs etc. It is usually common in its often narrowly limited places of occurrence.

Endangerment factors:
Peripodisma tymphii may be threatened by both a lack of management and subsequent densening of the vegetation and bush encroachment (especially in lower altitudes) and (tody more often) too intense grazing of especially cattle. Supposedly also climate change will affect occurrences at least in mountains wit peaks below 2000m.

Remarks:
Peripodisma tymphii is endemic to NW-Greece (Epirus: Tymfi, Soulion, Tomaros, Khionistra, Tsamada) and to adjacing Albania (e.g. Murganës, Nemërçkës, Buretos). In S-Albania there are two additional species of the genus Peripodisma (which is related to the central and southern Italian genus Italopodisma): P. llofizii und P. ceraunii.