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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 60
Least Concern 465
Data Deficient 23
Not Evaluated 1193
Extinct 20

Species by Taxonomic Group

Animalia 955
Plantae 918
Chromista 20
Fungi 15
Bacteria 2

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Italy

Bark Snail

Zonitoides arboreus

Not Evaluated

black gloss

Zonitoides nitidus

Least Concern

clear glass snail

Aegopinella pura

Vulnerable

eccentric grass snail

Vallonia excentrica

Near Threatened

ribbed grass snail

Vallonia costata

Least Concern

beautiful grass snail

Vallonia pulchella

Vulnerable

prickly snail

Acanthinula aculeata

Endangered

scotch argus

Erebia aethiops

Least Concern

Gray Field Slug

Deroceras reticulatum

Least Concern

brown slug

Deroceras laeve

Least Concern

field slug

Deroceras agreste

Least Concern

Banana bud moth

Opogona sacchari

Not Evaluated

Southern Festoon

Zerynthia polyxena

Least Concern

killer shrimp

Dikerogammarus villosus

Not Evaluated

Palm weevil

Sitophilus zeamais

Not Evaluated

Northern Dusky Slug

Arion fuscus

Data Deficient

New Forest Cicada

Cicadetta montana

Near Threatened

Leafhopper

Eupteryx atropunctata

Least Concern

Leafhopper

Typhlocyba quercus

Least Concern

Palm Moth

Paysandisia archon

Not Evaluated

Bamboo powderpost beetle

Dinoderus minutus

Not Evaluated

cottony camellia scale

Pulvinaria floccifera

Not Evaluated

Garden Millepede

Oxidus gracilis

Not Evaluated

Kentish snail

Monacha cantiana

Vulnerable

Asian Clam

Corbicula fluminalis

Not Evaluated

Freshwater Jellyfish

Craspedacusta sowerbii

Not Evaluated

Weevil

Liophloeus tessulatus

Least Concern

Weevil

Polydrusus cervinus

Least Concern

Common Leaf Weevil

Phyllobius pyri

Least Concern

Gentian Plume

Stenoptilia pneumonanthes

Critically Endangered

Dusky Plume

Oidaematophorus lithodactyla

Endangered

Triangle Plume

Platyptilia gonodactyla

Least Concern

Golden-rod Plume

Platyptilia calodactyla

Least Concern

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

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