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Ireland

Europe · Northern Europe

Total Species
1335
Threatened
74
CR + EN + VU
Population
4 937 796
Area
70 273 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 21
Endangered 25
Vulnerable 28
Near Threatened 52
Least Concern 369
Data Deficient 10
Not Evaluated 786
Extinct 14

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 842
Animalia 464
Fungi 14
Chromista 14
Bacteria 1

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Ireland

fern aphid

Idiopterus nephrelepidis

Not Evaluated

Asarabacca

Asarum europaeum

Vulnerable

Lupine Aphid

Macrosiphum albifrons

Not Evaluated

Dysderid Spider

Dysdera crocata

Not Evaluated

Wood-sage Plume

Capperia britanniodactylus

Endangered

Leafhopper

Macropsis fuscula

Least Concern

European elm leafhopper

Ribautiana ulmi

Least Concern

Plain Plume

Hellinsia tephradactyla

Least Concern

Irish Plume

Platyptilia tesseradactyla

Vulnerable

Leafhopper

Cicadella viridis

Least Concern

Beautiful Plume

Amblyptilia acanthadactyla

Least Concern

Bleeding-Heart

Dicentra formosa

Not Evaluated

Western Thyme Plume

Merrifieldia tridactyla

Near Threatened

Pea weevil

Bruchus pisorum

Not Evaluated

Thyme Plume

Merrifieldia leucodactyla

Near Threatened

Common Fumitory

Fumaria officinalis

Least Concern

Small Plume

Oxyptilus parvidactyla

Least Concern

Hemp-agrimony Plume

Adaina microdactyla

Vulnerable

Twin-spot Plume

Stenoptilia bipunctidactyla

Least Concern

Broadbean weevil

Bruchus rufimanus

Not Evaluated

large pine weevil

Hylobius abietis

Least Concern

woolly apple aphid

Eriosoma lanigerum

Not Evaluated

bay barnacle

Amphibalanus improvisus

Not Evaluated

Green Leaf Weevil

Phyllobius maculicornis

Least Concern

Weevil

Barynotus obscurus

Least Concern

Moth

Oinophila v-flava

Not Evaluated

Brittlestem hempnettle

Galeopsis tetrahit

Least Concern

Large-flowered Hemp-nettle

Galeopsis speciosa

Near Threatened

Weevil

Otiorhynchus rugosostriatus

Least Concern

Red Hemp-nettle

Galeopsis angustifolia

Near Threatened

Black Marram Weevil

Otiorhynchus atroapterus

Least Concern

Tapestry moth

Trichophaga tapetzella

Extinct

Great Green Bush-cricket

Tettigonia viridissima

Least Concern

Staggerweed

Stachys arvensis

Vulnerable

Weevil

Otiorhynchus porcatus

Least Concern

Lamb'S-Ear

Stachys byzantina

Not Evaluated

Common Motherwort

Leonurus cardiaca

Near Threatened

Narrownecked grain beetle

Omonadus floralis

Least Concern

Case-making clothes moth

Tinea pellionella

Least Concern

Spotted henbit

Lamium maculatum

Least Concern

marine splash midge

Telmatogeton japonicus

Not Evaluated

Purple Dead-Nettle

Lamium purpureum

Least Concern

Clasping Henbit

Lamium amplexicaule

Least Concern

common ramping-fumitory

Fumaria muralis

Not Evaluated

Rock Fumewort

Pseudofumaria lutea

Not Evaluated

Celandine

Chelidonium majus

Least Concern

Ringlegged earwig

Euborellia annulipes

Not Evaluated

Common Garden Poppy

Papaver somniferum

Not Evaluated

Blindeyes

Papaver dubium

Least Concern

Greater Wax Moth

Galleria mellonella

Least Concern

Atlas Poppy

Papaver atlanticum

Not Evaluated

European turkey oak

Quercus cerris

Not Evaluated

Northern Red Oak

Quercus rubra

Not Evaluated

Beech

Fagus sylvatica

Least Concern

Wandering Mussel

Dreissena polymorpha

Not Evaluated

northern dead-nettle

Lamium confertum

Least Concern

White deadnettle

Lamium album

Least Concern

Soft brown scale

Coccus hesperidum

Not Evaluated

Cut-leaved Dead-nettle

Lamium hybridum

Least Concern

Pale orache case-bearer

Coleophora versurella

Least Concern

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