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Switzerland

Europe · Western Europe

Total Species
1175
Threatened
3
CR + EN + VU
Population
8,654,622
Area
41,284 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 1
Endangered 1
Vulnerable 1
Near Threatened 1
Least Concern 1
Data Deficient 1
Not Evaluated 1
Extinct 1

Species by Taxonomic Group

Animalia 791
Plantae 352
Fungi 22
Chromista 9
Bacteria 1

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Switzerland

Cryptic Wood White

Leptidea juvernica

Least Concern

Cultivated Cress

Lepidium sativum

Not Evaluated

Cultivated radish

Raphanus sativus

Not Evaluated

Curly waterweed

Lagarosiphon major

Not Evaluated

Currant Stem Girdler

Agrilus ribesi

Data Deficient

Cutleaf coneflower

Rudbeckia laciniata

Not Evaluated

Cut-Leaf Teasel

Dipsacus laciniatus

Not Evaluated

Cut small dung beetle

Pleurophorus caesus

Extinct

cycad scale

Furchadaspis zamiae

Not Evaluated

Daddylongleg spider

Pholcus opilionoides

Not Evaluated

Dallisgrass

Paspalum dilatatum

Not Evaluated

Dalmatia Pyrethrum

Tanacetum cinerariifolium

Not Evaluated

Damascus Hellebore

Nigella damascena

Not Evaluated

Dark Green Fritillary

Speyeria aglaja

Least Concern

Darkling beetle

Blaps lethifera

Extinct

Darkling beetle

Myrmechixenus vaporariorum

Least Concern

Darkling beetle

Tribolium destructor

Least Concern

Dark mealworm

Tenebrio obscurus

Not Evaluated

Death-watch beetle

Xestobium rufovillosum

Least Concern

De Lesse’s Brassy Ringlet

Erebia nivalis

Least Concern

Demon Shrimp

Dikerogammarus haemobaphes

Not Evaluated

Depressed flour beetle

Palorus subdepressus

Not Evaluated

de Prunner’s Ringlet

Erebia triarius

Least Concern

Desert Goosefoot

Chenopodium pratericola

Not Evaluated

Devil's-Bit Jewel Beetle

Trachys troglodytes

Endangered

Dewy Ringlet

Erebia pandrose

Least Concern

Diffuse knapweed

Centaurea diffusa

Not Evaluated

Digger small dung beetle

Teuchestes fossor

Least Concern

dingy skipper

Erynnis tages

Vulnerable

Dingy White Plume

Merrifieldia baliodactylus

Near Threatened

Disc Mayweed

Matricaria discoidea

Not Evaluated

Dooryard dock

Rumex longifolius

Least Concern

Dotted Loosestrife

Lysimachia punctata

Not Evaluated

Double-Grooved Riverbank Round Beetle

Porotachys bisulcatus

Least Concern

Douglas Fir Seed Wasp

Megastigmus spermotrophus

Not Evaluated

Dowdy Plume

Stenoptilia zophodactylus

Extinct

Downland Plume

Oxyptilus pilosellae

Least Concern

Downy Cinquefoil

Potentilla intermedia

Not Evaluated

Drab Clothes

Haplotinea insectella

Least Concern

Dried Fruit Beetle

Carpophilus hemipterus

Least Concern

Dried fruit moth

Cadra calidella

Not Evaluated

Drooping Star Of Bethlehem

Ornithogalum nutans

Least Concern

Drugstore beetle

Stegobium paniceum

Least Concern

Dryad

Minois dryas

Least Concern

Duckwheat

Fagopyrum tataricum

Not Evaluated

Dudley'S Rush

Juncus tenuis

Least Concern

duke of burgundy fritillary

Hamearis lucina

Vulnerable

Dumb-Nettle

Galinsoga parviflora

Not Evaluated

Dune sand scarab beetle

Aegialia arenaria

Least Concern

Dusky Grizzled Skipper

Pyrgus cacaliae

Least Concern

Dusky Heath

Coenonympha dorus

Least Concern

Dusky Meadow Brown

Hyponephele lycaon

Not Evaluated

Dusky Plume

Oidaematophorus lithodactyla

Endangered

Dusky wireworm

Agriotes obscurus

Least Concern

Dutch Elm Disease

Ophiostoma ulmi

Not Evaluated

Dwarf Setaria

Setaria italica

Not Evaluated

Dyer's madder

Rubia tinctorum

Not Evaluated

Dysderid Spider

Dysdera crocata

Not Evaluated

Early Goldenrod

Solidago gigantea

Not Evaluated

Early Sunshiner

Amara famelica

Vulnerable

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