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Italy

Europe · Southern Europe

Total Species
1910
Threatened
18
CR + EN + VU
Population
60 461 828
Area
301 336 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 3
Endangered 8
Vulnerable 7
Near Threatened 10
Least Concern 172
Data Deficient 1
Not Evaluated 484
Extinct 1

Species by Taxonomic Group

Animalia 955
Plantae 918
Chromista 20
Fungi 15
Bacteria 2

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Italy

Saltmarsh Plume

Agdistis bennetii

Not Evaluated

Spotted White Plume

Porrittia galactodactyla

Least Concern

Wormwood Plume

Hellinsia lienigianus

Least Concern

Common Plume

Emmelina monodactyla

Least Concern

Rose Plume

Cnaemidophorus rhododactyla

Least Concern

Short-winged Plume

Pselnophorus heterodactyla

Least Concern

Yarrow Plume

Gillmeria pallidactyla

Least Concern

chrysanthemum aphid

Macrosiphoniella sanborni

Not Evaluated

Aphid

Illinoia azaleae

Not Evaluated

corn leaf aphid

Rhopalosiphum maidis

Not Evaluated

tulip bulb aphid

Dysaphis tulipae

Not Evaluated

caragana aphid

Acyrthosiphon caraganae

Not Evaluated

Citrus Longhorned Beetle

Anoplophora chinensis

Not Evaluated

Chinese Pond Mussel

Sinanodonta woodiana

Not Evaluated

Cooley spruce gall adelgid

Adelges cooleyi

Not Evaluated

Silver Fir Woolly Aphid

Adelges nordmannianae

Not Evaluated

Leafminer fly

Liriomyza trifolii

Not Evaluated

Asian Tiger Mosquito

Aedes albopictus

Not Evaluated

Colonial Sea Squirt

Botrylloides violaceus

Not Evaluated

glossy pillar snail

Cochlicopa lubrica

Data Deficient

Lined flat bark beetle

Cryptolestes ferrugineus

Least Concern

Lesser mealworm

Alphitobius diaperinus

Least Concern

Greenhouse slug

Milax gagates

Data Deficient

Sowerby's keeled slug

Tandonia sowerbyi

Data Deficient

bulb-eating slug

Tandonia rustica

Not Evaluated

Argentine ant

Linepithema humile

Not Evaluated

Greenhouse white fly

Trialeurodes vaporariorum

Not Evaluated

long tailed mealybug

Pseudococcus longispinus

Not Evaluated

Orange-banded arion

Arion fasciatus

Least Concern

Canine chewing louse

Trichodectes canis

Not Evaluated

mouflon

Ovis aries

Not Evaluated

Poplar bent-wing

Phyllocnistis unipunctella

Not Evaluated

Willow bent-wing

Phyllocnistis saligna

Least Concern

Gold-dot slender

Euspilapteryx auroguttella

Least Concern

Feathered slender

Caloptilia cuculipennella

Near Threatened

Viburnum midget

Phyllonorycter lantanella

Not Evaluated

Common alder midget

Phyllonorycter rajella

Least Concern

Little slender

Calybites phasianipennella

Near Threatened

Brown Bryozoan

Bugula neritina

Not Evaluated

Dappled White

Euchloe ausonia

Not Evaluated

elegant helicellid

Trochoidea elegans

Data Deficient

cobweb spiders

Steatoda grossa

Least Concern

Banded greenhouse thrips

Hercinothrips femoralis

Not Evaluated

African Carnation Tortrix

Epichoristodes acerbella

Not Evaluated

Fir Bell

Epinotia nigricana

Not Evaluated

Spitting Spider

Scytodes thoracica

Least Concern

Raisin moth

Cadra figulilella

Not Evaluated

False Ringlet

Coenonympha oedippus

Endangered

long-neck field slug

Deroceras panormitanum

Least Concern

Large Pale Clothes Moth

Tinea pallescentella

Not Evaluated

Northern rat flea

Nosopsyllus fasciatus

Not Evaluated

Hairy Fungus Beetle

Typhaea stercorea

Data Deficient

Scarce Large Blue

Phengaris teleius

Extinct

Geyer’s Whorl Snail

Vertigo geyeri

Vulnerable

Gammarid amphipod

Grandidierella japonica

Not Evaluated

cactus scale

Diaspis echinocacti

Not Evaluated

Marbled cellar spider

Holocnemus pluchei

Not Evaluated

Daddylongleg spider

Pholcus opilionoides

Not Evaluated

Leafhopper

Evacanthus interruptus

Least Concern

Ligurian Leafhopper

Eupteryx decemnotata

Least Concern

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