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Italy

Europe · Southern Europe

Total Species
1910
Threatened
74
CR + EN + VU
Population
60,461,828
Area
301,336 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 16
Endangered 25
Vulnerable 33
Near Threatened 60
Least Concern 465
Data Deficient 23
Not Evaluated 1193
Extinct 20

Species by Taxonomic Group

Animalia 955
Plantae 918
Chromista 20
Fungi 15
Bacteria 2

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Italy

Twin-spot Plume

Stenoptilia bipunctidactyla

Least Concern

Twoscale saltbush

Atriplex micrantha

Not Evaluated

Two Spotted Carrion Beetle

Nitidula bipunctata

Least Concern

Two Tailed Pasha

Charaxes jasius

Not Evaluated

umbilical mask snail

Causa holosericea

Least Concern

Upland cotton

Gossypium hirsutum

Vulnerable

Urban spurge

Euphorbia agraria

Not Evaluated

Uruguayan needlegrass

Nassella neesiana

Not Evaluated

Uruguayan pampas grass

Cortaderia selloana

Not Evaluated

Valley redstem

Ammannia coccinea

Least Concern

Variable flatsedge

Cyperus difformis

Least Concern

Viburnum midget

Phyllonorycter lantanella

Not Evaluated

Village Weaver

Ploceus cucullatus

Least Concern

Violet crabgrass

Digitaria violascens

Not Evaluated

violet fritillary

Boloria dia

Not Evaluated

violet horned-poppy

Roemeria hybrida

Not Evaluated

violin spiders

Loxosceles rufescens

Not Evaluated

Viper grass

Dinebra retroflexa

Not Evaluated

Virginian Rose

Rosa virginiana

Not Evaluated

visco

Parasenegalia visco

Least Concern

wall whorl snail

Vertigo pusilla

Data Deficient

walnut aphid

Chromaphis juglandicola

Not Evaluated

Wandering Mussel

Dreissena polymorpha

Not Evaluated

Wand mullein

Verbascum virgatum

Not Evaluated

Wardrobe beetle

Attagenus fasciatus

Not Evaluated

Warehouse beetle

Trogoderma variabile

Not Evaluated

Warehouse spider beetle

Ptinus latro

Not Evaluated

Wasp Spider

Argiope bruennichi

Near Threatened

Water fern

Azolla filiculoides

Not Evaluated

Water lettuce

Pistia stratiotes

Least Concern

Water-Lily

Nymphaea marliacea

Not Evaluated

Water primrose

Ludwigia peploides

Not Evaluated

Water scavenger beetle

Cercyon laminatus

Least Concern

Watkins fig

Ficus watkinsiana

Least Concern

Webbing clothes moth

Tineola bisselliella

Least Concern

Wedge-shaped beetle

Ripidius pectinicornis

Not Evaluated

Weed silene

Silene conoidea

Not Evaluated

Weeping lovegrass

Eragrostis curvula

Not Evaluated

weeping willow

Salix babylonica

Not Evaluated

Weevil

Otiorhynchus raucus

Least Concern

Weevil

Otiorhynchus cribricollis

Not Evaluated

Weevil

Pentarthrum huttoni

Not Evaluated

Weevil

Otiorhynchus ligustici

Least Concern

Weevil

Otiorhynchus rugifrons

Near Threatened

Weevil

Otiorhynchus desertus

Least Concern

Weevil

Brachyderes incanus

Least Concern

Weevil

Stenopelmus rufinasus

Not Evaluated

Weevil

Liophloeus tessulatus

Least Concern

Weevil

Polydrusus cervinus

Least Concern

Weevil

Brachysomus echinatus

Least Concern

Weevil

Barynotus obscurus

Least Concern

Weevil

Otiorhynchus rugosostriatus

Least Concern

Weevil

Otiorhynchus porcatus

Least Concern

Welsh onion

Allium fistulosum

Critically Endangered

Western Conifer Seed Bug

Leptoglossus occidentalis

Not Evaluated

Western Dappled White

Euchloe crameri

Least Concern

Western flower thrips

Frankliniella occidentalis

Not Evaluated

Western Marbled White

Melanargia occitanica

Least Concern

Western Reef-Heron

Egretta gularis

Least Concern

western roe deer

Capreolus capreolus

Least Concern

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