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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 52
Least Concern 381
Data Deficient 10
Not Evaluated 606
Extinct 20

Species by Taxonomic Group

Animalia 791
Plantae 352
Fungi 22
Chromista 9
Bacteria 1

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Switzerland

Primrose peerless

Narcissus medioluteus

Not Evaluated

Death-watch beetle

Xestobium rufovillosum

Least Concern

Brown Chafer

Serica brunnea

Least Concern

Lesser Stag Beetle

Dorcus parallelipipedus

Least Concern

Webbing clothes moth

Tineola bisselliella

Least Concern

Bladdernut

Staphylea pinnata

Not Evaluated

Bloody small dung beetle

Otophorus haemorrhoidalis

Least Concern

Wandering vetch

Vicia peregrina

Not Evaluated

Rendle's meadow foxtail

Alopecurus rendlei

Not Evaluated

Barn Funnel Weaver

Tegenaria domestica

Least Concern

Citrus mealybug

Planococcus citri

Not Evaluated

Warty bedstraw

Galium verrucosum

Not Evaluated

Common stork's bill

Erodium ciconium

Not Evaluated

Heath Star Moss

Campylopus introflexus

Not Evaluated

Cape Thread-moss

Orthodontium lineare

Not Evaluated

Spinyfruit buttercup

Ranunculus muricatus

Not Evaluated

Sawtoothed grain beetle

Oryzaephilus surinamensis

Not Evaluated

Hartwort

Tordylium maximum

Not Evaluated

Prostrate sandmat

Euphorbia prostrata

Not Evaluated

Ribbon Fern

Pteris cretica

Not Evaluated

Hairy yellow vetch

Vicia hybrida

Not Evaluated

tall nightshade

Solanum chenopodioides

Not Evaluated

Eyebane

Euphorbia nutans

Not Evaluated

Long-Horned Beetle

Phymatodes testaceus

Least Concern

Hungarian iris

Iris variegata

Not Evaluated

Garden Chafer

Phyllopertha horticola

Least Concern

Bristlefruit hedgeparsley

Torilis leptophylla

Not Evaluated

Mercuryweed

Acalypha virginica

Not Evaluated

Creeping Prickly-Pear

Opuntia humifusa

Least Concern

Three-awned goatgrass

Aegilops neglecta

Not Evaluated

Dune sand scarab beetle

Aegialia arenaria

Least Concern

Mottled dung beetle

Onthophagus nuchicornis

Endangered

Furniture beetle

Anobium punctatum

Least Concern

Jenkins' spire shell

Potamopyrgus antipodarum

Not Evaluated

Hide beetle

Trox scaber

Least Concern

Common dung beetle

Aphodius fimetarius

Not Evaluated

Trailing Snapdragon

Asarina procumbens

Not Evaluated

Compact brome

Bromus madritensis

Not Evaluated

Syrian mustard

Euclidium syriacum

Not Evaluated

Ripgut Brome

Bromus rigidus

Not Evaluated

creeping saxifrage

Saxifraga stolonifera

Not Evaluated

Rosy Cress

Arabis collina

Not Evaluated

butterfly-flower

Iris japonica

Not Evaluated

Bastard Agrimony

Aremonia agrimonioides

Not Evaluated

Gmelin's wormwood

Artemisia gmelinii

Not Evaluated

Earth-boring dung beetle

Geotrupes stercorarius

Least Concern

Hollyhock Rust

Puccinia malvacearum

Not Evaluated

American Gooseberry Mildew

Podosphaera mors-uvae

Not Evaluated

Mahonia Rust

Cumminsiella mirabilissima

Not Evaluated

Dutch Elm Disease

Ophiostoma ulmi

Not Evaluated

Chestnut Blight

Cryphonectria parasitica

Not Evaluated

Alder rust

Melampsoridium hiratsukanum

Not Evaluated

Sphaeropsis blight

Sphaeropsis sapinea

Not Evaluated

Entoleuca mammata

Vulnerable

Erysiphe necator

Not Evaluated

Eutypa lata

Least Concern

Rhabdocline pseudotsugae

Not Evaluated

Erysiphe flexuosa

Not Evaluated

Erysiphe syringae-japonicae

Not Evaluated

Kabatiella caulivora

Not Evaluated

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