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United Kingdom

Europe · Northern Europe

Total Species
4019
Threatened
171
CR + EN + VU
Population
67.886.011
Area
242.495 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 42
Endangered 69
Vulnerable 60
Near Threatened 113
Least Concern 878
Data Deficient 28
Not Evaluated 2695
Extinct in the Wild 1
Extinct 41

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 2273
Animalia 1568
Fungi 126
Chromista 50
Bacteria 2

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in United Kingdom

Large Tabby

Aglossa pinguinalis

Least Concern

Big-Ear Shipworm

Psiloteredo megotara

Not Evaluated

Pelopée

Ametastegia pallipes

Not Evaluated

Fingered Rush

Juncus subsecundus

Not Evaluated

Sea-daffodil

Pancratium maritimum

Not Evaluated

Lined flat bark beetle

Cryptolestes ferrugineus

Least Concern

Darkling beetle

Blaps lethifera

Extinct

Little fire ant

Wasmannia auropunctata

Not Evaluated

Broad-Horned Flour Beetle

Gnatocerus cornutus

Not Evaluated

sesame

Sesamum indicum

Not Evaluated

Sessile joyweed

Alternanthera sessilis

Least Concern

Small Tabby

Aglossa caprealis

Not Evaluated

sharp-tooth clover

Trifolium argutum

Not Evaluated

French Rocket

Sisymbrium erysimoides

Not Evaluated

Pale Corn Clothes

Nemapogon variatella

Least Concern

Shingle Flatsedge

Cyperus imbricatus

Least Concern

Fragrant false garlic

Nothoscordum borbonicum

Not Evaluated

Bicolor Cobra Lily

Chasmanthe bicolor

Vulnerable

Rosemary Beetle

Chrysolina americana

Not Evaluated

London Dowd

Blastobasis lacticolella

Not Evaluated

Hampshire Dowd

Blastobasis phycidella

Not Evaluated

Strawberry Root Weevil

Sciaphilus asperatus

Least Concern

crescentmarked lily aphid

Neomyzus circumflexus

Not Evaluated

Dock aphid

Brachycaudus rumexicolens

Not Evaluated

Sycamore midget

Phyllonorycter geniculella

Not Evaluated

Mealybug destroyer

Cryptolaemus montrouzieri

Not Evaluated

Douglas Fir Seed Wasp

Megastigmus spermotrophus

Not Evaluated

Larch Piercer

Cydia illutana

Least Concern

Pear-tree Pigmy

Stigmella pyri

Endangered

Bark beetle

Coccotrypes dactyliperda

Not Evaluated

Pomace fly

Drosophila hydei

Not Evaluated

Oleander Aphid

Aphis nerii

Not Evaluated

Redclaw

Cherax quadricarinatus

Least Concern

Pomace Fly

Drosophila busckii

Not Evaluated

Hybrid Larch

Larix marschlinsii

Not Evaluated

Louse

Menopon gallinae

Not Evaluated

Depressed flour beetle

Palorus subdepressus

Not Evaluated

Centipede

Tygarrup javanicus

Not Evaluated

parasitic copepod

Tracheliastes maculatus

Not Evaluated

Shrubby Scorpion-vetch

Coronilla valentina

Least Concern

Siberian bugseed

Corispermum pallasii

Not Evaluated

Siberian Squill

Scilla siberica

Not Evaluated

fox squirrel

Sciurus niger

Not Evaluated

Herbarium Beetle

Dienerella filum

Least Concern

Fountainbush

Russelia equisetiformis

Not Evaluated

Silverleaf nightshade

Solanum elaeagnifolium

Not Evaluated

mourning love grass

Eragrostis lugens

Not Evaluated

Silversheath knotweed

Polygonum argyrocoleum

Not Evaluated

Asia minor bluegrass

Polypogon fugax

Not Evaluated

Sitka Brome

Bromus sitchensis

Not Evaluated

Sixweeks threeawn

Aristida adscensionis

Not Evaluated

Thrips

Frankliniella schultzei

Not Evaluated

Hydroid

Maeotias marginata

Not Evaluated

Potato Wart Disease

Synchytrium endobioticum

Not Evaluated

Juniper aphid

Cinara juniperi

Not Evaluated

Slender pride of rochester

Deutzia gracilis

Not Evaluated

Small-Leaved Blinks

Montia parvifolia

Least Concern

balsam twig aphid

Mindarus abietinus

Not Evaluated

cowpea aphid

Aphis craccivora

Not Evaluated

smooth heliotrope

Heliotropium curassavicum

Not Evaluated

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