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Switzerland

Europe · Western Europe

Total Species
1175
Threatened
84
CR + EN + VU
Population
8 654 622
Area
41 284 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 21
Endangered 36
Vulnerable 27
Near Threatened 55
Least Concern 383
Data Deficient 10
Not Evaluated 593
Extinct 20

Species by Taxonomic Group

Animalia 791
Plantae 352
Fungi 22
Chromista 9
Bacteria 1

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Switzerland

Earth-boring dung beetle

Geotrupes stercorarius

Least Concern

Azalea leafminer

Caloptilia azaleella

Not Evaluated

tulip bulb aphid

Dysaphis tulipae

Not Evaluated

bloody-red shrimp

Hemimysis anomala

Not Evaluated

Green-House Camel-Cricket

Tachycines asynamorus

Not Evaluated

chrysanthemum aphid

Macrosiphoniella sanborni

Not Evaluated

Confused flour beetle

Tribolium confusum

Least Concern

Jenkins' spire shell

Potamopyrgus antipodarum

Not Evaluated

Hardback Beetle

Tenebrio molitor

Least Concern

Yarrow Plume

Gillmeria pallidactyla

Least Concern

Brown house moth

Hofmannophila pseudospretella

Least Concern

Short-winged Plume

Pselnophorus heterodactyla

Least Concern

Rose Plume

Cnaemidophorus rhododactyla

Least Concern

Common Plume

Emmelina monodactyla

Least Concern

Wormwood Plume

Hellinsia lienigianus

Least Concern

Angoumois grain moth

Sitotroga cerealella

Not Evaluated

Aphid

Illinoia azaleae

Not Evaluated

corn leaf aphid

Rhopalosiphum maidis

Not Evaluated

Northern Brown Argus

Aricia artaxerxes

Least Concern

caragana aphid

Acyrthosiphon caraganae

Not Evaluated

Redlegged ham beetle

Necrobia rufipes

Least Concern

Long-horned beetle

Nathrius brevipennis

Not Evaluated

Golden-rod Plume

Platyptilia calodactyla

Least Concern

Triangle Plume

Platyptilia gonodactyla

Least Concern

Wasp Beetle

Clytus arietis

Least Concern

Silver Fir Woolly Aphid

Adelges nordmannianae

Not Evaluated

Dusky Plume

Oidaematophorus lithodactyla

Endangered

Gentian Plume

Stenoptilia pneumonanthes

Critically Endangered

Rust pine borer

Arhopalus rusticus

Least Concern

Jumping spider

Pseudeuophrys lanigera

Least Concern

Common Leaf Weevil

Phyllobius pyri

Least Concern

Lined flat bark beetle

Cryptolestes ferrugineus

Least Concern

Weevil

Polydrusus cervinus

Least Concern

Darkling beetle

Blaps lethifera

Extinct

Goldenhaired bark beetle

Hylurgus ligniperda

Data Deficient

Argentine ant

Linepithema humile

Not Evaluated

Greenhouse white fly

Trialeurodes vaporariorum

Not Evaluated

mouflon

Ovis aries

Not Evaluated

Weevil

Liophloeus tessulatus

Least Concern

Rosalia Longicorn

Rosalia alpina

Extinct

Pine Sawyer

Monochamus sutor

Least Concern

Surinam cockroach

Pycnoscelus surinamensis

Not Evaluated

Bark beetle

Crypturgus pusillus

Least Concern

Bluish Borer Beetle

Agrilus cyanescens

Data Deficient

Elm Bark Beetle

Scolytus multistriatus

Not Evaluated

Varied Carpet Beetle

Anthrenus verbasci

Least Concern

Tanner Beetle

Prionus coriarius

Critically Endangered

Raisin moth

Cadra figulilella

Not Evaluated

Asian Clam

Corbicula fluminalis

Not Evaluated

Garden Millepede

Oxidus gracilis

Not Evaluated

Long-horned beetle

Tetropium castaneum

Least Concern

cottony camellia scale

Pulvinaria floccifera

Not Evaluated

Bamboo powderpost beetle

Dinoderus minutus

Not Evaluated

Tawny Riverbank Ground Beetle

Trechus rubens

Endangered

European harp ground beetle

Bradycellus harpalinus

Least Concern

Cerambyx Longicorn

Cerambyx cerdo

Critically Endangered

shallot aphid

Myzus ascalonicus

Not Evaluated

heath fritillary

Melitaea athalia

Extinct

cranberry fritillary

Boloria aquilonaris

Least Concern

Midday harp ground beetle

Acupalpus meridianus

Least Concern

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