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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 63
Least Concern 504
Data Deficient 24
Not Evaluated 1219
Extinct 20

Species by Taxonomic Group

Animalia 955
Plantae 918
Chromista 20
Fungi 15
Bacteria 2

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Italy

Green Leaf Weevil

Phyllobius maculicornis

Least Concern

Green Immigrant Leaf Weevil

Polydrusus formosus

Least Concern

Weevil

Barynotus obscurus

Least Concern

Weevil

Otiorhynchus rugosostriatus

Least Concern

Japanese privet

Ligustrum japonicum

Not Evaluated

Weevil

Otiorhynchus porcatus

Least Concern

Smut grass

Sporobolus indicus

Not Evaluated

Pennsylvania everlasting

Gamochaeta pensylvanica

Not Evaluated

Strawberry Root Weevil

Sciaphilus asperatus

Least Concern

Heather Weevil

Strophosoma sus

Least Concern

Tomato russet mite

Aculops lycopersici

Not Evaluated

Soft brown scale

Coccus hesperidum

Not Evaluated

Striped Acorn Barnacle

Amphibalanus amphitrite

Not Evaluated

Pink-sorrel

Oxalis articulata

Not Evaluated

Citrus flower moth

Prays citri

Not Evaluated

Chia

Salvia hispanica

Not Evaluated

smooth heliotrope

Heliotropium curassavicum

Not Evaluated

cactus scale

Diaspis echinocacti

Not Evaluated

Indian Pokeweed

Phytolacca acinosa

Not Evaluated

Krauss' spikemoss

Selaginella kraussiana

Not Evaluated

Machilus oystershell

Lepidosaphes beckii

Not Evaluated

Snow-in-summer

Cerastium biebersteinii

Not Evaluated

Gammarid amphipod

Grandidierella japonica

Not Evaluated

Primrose peerless

Narcissus medioluteus

Not Evaluated

Fragrant false garlic

Nothoscordum borbonicum

Not Evaluated

Large Pale Clothes Moth

Tinea pallescentella

Not Evaluated

Raisin moth

Cadra figulilella

Not Evaluated

Fir Bell

Epinotia nigricana

Not Evaluated

African Carnation Tortrix

Epichoristodes acerbella

Not Evaluated

Banded greenhouse thrips

Hercinothrips femoralis

Not Evaluated

Brown Bryozoan

Bugula neritina

Not Evaluated

Variable flatsedge

Cyperus difformis

Least Concern

Little slender

Calybites phasianipennella

Near Threatened

Bastard Cedar

Calocedrus decurrens

Least Concern

Common alder midget

Phyllonorycter rajella

Least Concern

Gold-dot slender

Euspilapteryx auroguttella

Least Concern

Willow bent-wing

Phyllocnistis saligna

Least Concern

Poplar bent-wing

Phyllocnistis unipunctella

Not Evaluated

Syrian beancaper

Zygophyllum fabago

Least Concern

Golden bamboo

Phyllostachys aurea

Not Evaluated

Crimson fountaingrass

Cenchrus setaceus

Not Evaluated

Arrow bamboo

Pseudosasa japonica

Not Evaluated

Canine chewing louse

Trichodectes canis

Not Evaluated

Australian waterbuttons

Cotula australis

Not Evaluated

long tailed mealybug

Pseudococcus longispinus

Not Evaluated

Greenhouse white fly

Trialeurodes vaporariorum

Not Evaluated

monkeyflower

Erythranthe guttata

Not Evaluated

Argentine ant

Linepithema humile

Not Evaluated

Duckweed

Lemna aequinoctialis

Not Evaluated

Lined flat bark beetle

Cryptolestes ferrugineus

Least Concern

Colonial Sea Squirt

Botrylloides violaceus

Not Evaluated

Asian Tiger Mosquito

Aedes albopictus

Not Evaluated

Asian Pony'S-Foot

Dichondra micrantha

Not Evaluated

Leafminer fly

Liriomyza trifolii

Not Evaluated

Mile a minute vine

Ipomoea cairica

Not Evaluated

Ramie Chinese grass

Boehmeria nivea

Not Evaluated

coast redwood

Sequoia sempervirens

Endangered

Silver wattle

Acacia retinodes

Not Evaluated

White leadtree

Leucaena leucocephala

Least Concern

Plume albizia

Paraserianthes lophantha

Least Concern

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