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Italy

Europe · Southern Europe

Total Species
1910
Threatened
73
CR + EN + VU
Population
60,461,828
Area
301,336 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 16
Endangered 25
Vulnerable 32
Near Threatened 61
Least Concern 471
Data Deficient 22
Not Evaluated 1156
Extinct 20

Species by Taxonomic Group

Animalia 955
Plantae 918
Chromista 20
Fungi 15
Bacteria 2

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Italy

Siberian chipmunk

Tamias sibiricus

Not Evaluated

Mediterranean flour moth

Ephestia kuehniella

Least Concern

Tree Snail

Balea perversa

Critically Endangered

Mountain Ringlet

Erebia epiphron

Least Concern

Rock Grayling

Hipparchia hermione

Not Evaluated

Dusky Meadow Brown

Hyponephele lycaon

Not Evaluated

Titania'S Fritillary

Boloria titania

Not Evaluated

spotted fritillary

Melitaea didyma

Least Concern

Jenkins' spire shell

Potamopyrgus antipodarum

Not Evaluated

cadelle beetle

Tenebroides mauritanicus

Not Evaluated

Finlayson's squirrel

Callosciurus finlaysonii

Least Concern

Cigarette beetle

Lasioderma serricorne

Not Evaluated

Northern Brown Argus

Aricia artaxerxes

Least Concern

Broadbean weevil

Bruchus rufimanus

Not Evaluated

Shelled Slug

Testacella haliotidea

Data Deficient

Leafhopper

Cicadella viridis

Least Concern

Green-Underside Blue

Glaucopsyche alexis

Near Threatened

wild cat

Felis silvestris

Critically Endangered

false heath fritillary

Melitaea diamina

Vulnerable

heath fritillary

Melitaea athalia

Extinct

house mouse

Mus musculus

Least Concern

violet fritillary

Boloria dia

Not Evaluated

rosy grizzled skipper

Pyrgus onopordi

Least Concern

hedge brown

Pyronia tithonus

Least Concern

wild boar

Sus scrofa

Least Concern

Arctic Skipper

Carterocephalus palaemon

Near Threatened

Pool Frog

Pelophylax lessonae

Critically Endangered

Niobe Fritillary

Fabriciana niobe

Vulnerable

lesser purple emperor

Apatura ilia

Not Evaluated

Brown Rat

Rattus norvegicus

Least Concern

pearly heath

Coenonympha arcania

Least Concern

poplar admiral

Limenitis populi

Extinct

wood mouse

Apodemus sylvaticus

Least Concern

dingy skipper

Erynnis tages

Vulnerable

Strawberry root weevil

Otiorhynchus ovatus

Least Concern

Clay-Coloured Weevil

Otiorhynchus singularis

Least Concern

lesser marbled fritillary

Brenthis ino

Least Concern

Weevil

Brachyderes incanus

Least Concern

Silverfish

Ctenolepisma longicaudatum

Not Evaluated

black rat

Rattus rattus

Extinct

Weevil

Otiorhynchus ligustici

Least Concern

Brown Leaf Weevil

Phyllobius oblongus

Least Concern

Brown Plume

Stenoptilia pterodactyla

Least Concern

Crescent Plume

Marasmarcha lunaedactyla

Near Threatened

lesser bulin

Merdigera obscura

Near Threatened

Compound Sea Squirt

Didemnum vexillum

Not Evaluated

common cockroach, oriental cockroach

Blatta orientalis

Not Evaluated

red underwing skipper

Spialia sertorius

Extinct

Brimstone

Gonepteryx rhamni

Near Threatened

Mediterranean fruit fly

Ceratitis capitata

Not Evaluated

green peach aphid

Myzus persicae

Not Evaluated

strawberry aphid

Chaetosiphon fragaefolii

Not Evaluated

brandling

Eisenia fetida

Not Evaluated

moss chrysalis snail

Pupilla muscorum

Near Threatened

Asian Longhorned Beetle

Anoplophora glabripennis

Not Evaluated

tawny glass snail

Euconulus fulvus

Vulnerable

Columbia River Signal Crayfish

Pacifastacus leniusculus

Not Evaluated

rough whorl snail

Columella aspera

Data Deficient

toothless chrysalis snail

Columella edentula

Near Threatened

cylindrical whorl snail

Truncatellina cylindrica

Vulnerable

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