Fauna ipogea del sistema sotterraneo di Bossea e recenti ricerche: aggiornamento al 2019

The Bossea Cave opens in the Corsaglia Valley, in the Ligurian Alps (Frabosa Soprana, Cuneo, Piedmont, northwestern Italy); first touristic cave in Italy. During last 130 year many experts of underground fauna visited the cavity with the aim to describe and list its faunal population. In the last quarter of the XXth century, an underground laboratory has been built in the cave and the studies on the fauna increased but only in the last 12 years, with a new knowledge of the subterranean environment, the list of underground fauna increased to more than the double of the species known in 1991. In this work are provided an ultimate list of the species found in the Bossea underground system and a summary of the recent researches carried out by the operators of the biospeleology section of the “StrutturaOperativaBossea”.