South Africa
Africa · Southern Africa
Conservation Status Overview
Species by Taxonomic Group
Featured Species
achillée mille-feuilles
Achillea millefolium
acore
Acorus calamus
Addax
Addax nasomaculatus
Agave d'Amérique
Agave americana
agrostis géant
Agrostis gigantea
Aloès Candélabre
Aloe arborescens
Antilope Cervicapre
Antilope cervicapra
Aoudad de Barbarie
Ammotragus lervia
Ecoregions
Knysna-Amatole montane forests
Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests · Afrotropic
Highveld grasslands
Montane Grasslands & Shrublands · Afrotropic
Albany thickets
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub · Afrotropic
Kalahari xeric savanna
Deserts & Xeric Shrublands · Afrotropic
Southern Africa mangroves
Mangroves · Afrotropic
All Species in South Africa
Dysderid Spider
Dysdera crocata
Dowdy Plume
Stenoptilia zophodactylus
Tomato russet mite
Aculops lycopersici
Ringlegged earwig
Euborellia annulipes
Soft brown scale
Coccus hesperidum
Orange-tipped sea squirt
Corella eumyota
Morning-glory leafminer moth
Bedellia somnulentella
Egyptian Bollworm
Earias insulana
Citrus flower moth
Prays citri
tamarix leafhopper
Opsius stactogalus
Potato rot nematode
Ditylenchus destructor
European Red Mite
Panonychus ulmi
Radford's Flame Shoulder
Ochropleura leucogaster
common blow flie
Calliphora vicina
Moth
Monopis monachella
long-neck field slug
Deroceras panormitanum
Tortricid moth
Crocidosema plebejana
Spitting Spider
Scytodes thoracica
African Carnation Tortrix
Epichoristodes acerbella
Pacific oyster
Magallana gigas
Woodwasp
Sirex noctilio
Olive-tree Pearl
Palpita vitrealis
cobweb spiders
Steatoda grossa
Bulrush Veneer
Calamotropha paludella
horse
Equus caballus
mouflon
Ovis aries
sea thread hydroid
Obelia dichotoma
Garden arion
Arion hortensis
Greenhouse white fly
Trialeurodes vaporariorum
Argentine ant
Linepithema humile
Greenhouse slug
Milax gagates
Lesser mealworm
Alphitobius diaperinus
glossy pillar snail
Cochlicopa lubrica
disc web spiders
Oecobius navus
Scar Bank Gem
Ctenoplusia limbirena
Asian Tiger Mosquito
Aedes albopictus
Carmine spider mite
Tetranychus urticae
Eurasian pine adelgid
Pineus pini
blood worm
Lumbricus rubellus
Wormwood Plume
Hellinsia lienigianus
Garden Millepede
Oxidus gracilis
giant earwig, tawny earwig
Labidura riparia
Lantana
Lantana camara
Blackspot hornpoppy
Glaucium corniculatum
brown slug
Deroceras laeve
London rocket
Sisymbrium irio
Gray Field Slug
Deroceras reticulatum
beautiful grass snail
Vallonia pulchella
ribbed grass snail
Vallonia costata
dull glass snail
Aegopinella nitidula
Bark Snail
Zonitoides arboreus
Meal Moth
Pyralis farinalis
Indian Meal Moth
Plodia interpunctella
Khapra beetle
Trogoderma granarium
Human flea
Pulex irritans
Cat flea
Ctenocephalides felis
False codling moth
Thaumatotibia leucotreta
Thrips
Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis
Thrips
Thrips tabaci
Moth
Grapholita molesta
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