South Africa
Africa · Southern Africa
Conservation Status Overview
Species by Taxonomic Group
Featured Species
jarak
Ricinus communis
Pien
Araucaria cunninghamii
Alder
Alnus glutinosa
Black Bent
Agrostis gigantea
blackbuck
Antilope cervicapra
Black Cutworm
Agrotis ipsilon
Bloodwort
Achillea millefolium
aoudad
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
Gray Field Slug
Deroceras reticulatum
brown slug
Deroceras laeve
giant earwig, tawny earwig
Labidura riparia
Garden Millepede
Oxidus gracilis
Wormwood Plume
Hellinsia lienigianus
blood worm
Lumbricus rubellus
Eurasian pine adelgid
Pineus pini
Carmine spider mite
Tetranychus urticae
House Centipede
Scutigera coleoptrata
Asian Tiger Mosquito
Aedes albopictus
Scar Bank Gem
Ctenoplusia limbirena
disc web spiders
Oecobius navus
glossy pillar snail
Cochlicopa lubrica
Yabby
Cherax destructor
Lesser mealworm
Alphitobius diaperinus
Greenhouse slug
Milax gagates
Argentine ant
Linepithema humile
Greenhouse white fly
Trialeurodes vaporariorum
Garden arion
Arion hortensis
sea thread hydroid
Obelia dichotoma
mouflon
Ovis aries
horse
Equus caballus
Brown Bryozoan
Bugula neritina
Bulrush Veneer
Calamotropha paludella
cobweb spiders
Steatoda grossa
Olive-tree Pearl
Palpita vitrealis
Woodwasp
Sirex noctilio
Pacific oyster
Magallana gigas
African Carnation Tortrix
Epichoristodes acerbella
Spitting Spider
Scytodes thoracica
Tortricid moth
Crocidosema plebejana
long-neck field slug
Deroceras panormitanum
Moth
Monopis monachella
common blow flie
Calliphora vicina
Radford's Flame Shoulder
Ochropleura leucogaster
impala
Aepyceros melampus
European Red Mite
Panonychus ulmi
Potato rot nematode
Ditylenchus destructor
tamarix leafhopper
Opsius stactogalus
Citrus flower moth
Prays citri
Egyptian Bollworm
Earias insulana
Morning-glory leafminer moth
Bedellia somnulentella
Orange-tipped sea squirt
Corella eumyota
Soft brown scale
Coccus hesperidum
Ringlegged earwig
Euborellia annulipes
Tomato russet mite
Aculops lycopersici
Dowdy Plume
Stenoptilia zophodactylus
Dysderid Spider
Dysdera crocata
Pink soilworm
Aporrectodea rosea
Grey worm
Aporrectodea caliginosa
Yellow potato cyst nematode
Globodera rostochiensis
Summer Groundling
Scrobipalpa obsoletella
jumping spiders
Hasarius adansoni
Tunbridge Wells Gem
Chrysodeixis acuta
Yorkshire Y
Cornutiplusia circumflexa
minute gem
Hawaiia minuscula
red crust
Cryptosula pallasiana
Chevron Snout
Hypena lividalis
lechwe
Kobus leche
aurochs
Bos taurus
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