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Italy

Europe · Southern Europe

Total Species
1910
Threatened
72
CR + EN + VU
Population
60.461.828
Area
301.336 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 15
Endangered 25
Vulnerable 32
Near Threatened 61
Least Concern 467
Data Deficient 23
Not Evaluated 1186
Extinct 20

Species by Taxonomic Group

Animalia 955
Plantae 918
Chromista 20
Fungi 15
Bacteria 2

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Italy

Silky Ringlet

Erebia gorge

Least Concern

Raisin moth

Cadra figulilella

Not Evaluated

potato aphid

Macrosiphum euphorbiae

Not Evaluated

Spitting Spider

Scytodes thoracica

Least Concern

Fir Bell

Epinotia nigricana

Not Evaluated

mallow skipper

Carcharodus alceae

Least Concern

Clouded Apollo

Parnassius mnemosyne

Near Threatened

African Carnation Tortrix

Epichoristodes acerbella

Not Evaluated

Banded greenhouse thrips

Hercinothrips femoralis

Not Evaluated

lulworth skipper

Thymelicus acteon

Near Threatened

cobweb spiders

Steatoda grossa

Least Concern

elegant helicellid

Trochoidea elegans

Data Deficient

worm slug

Boettgerilla pallens

Least Concern

Apollo

Parnassius apollo

Near Threatened

Dappled White

Euchloe ausonia

Not Evaluated

Mountain Clouded Yellow

Colias phicomone

Near Threatened

Asian rapa whelk

Rapana venosa

Not Evaluated

Brown Bryozoan

Bugula neritina

Not Evaluated

Little slender

Calybites phasianipennella

Near Threatened

White Plume Moth

Pterophorus pentadactyla

Least Concern

Common alder midget

Phyllonorycter rajella

Least Concern

Viburnum midget

Phyllonorycter lantanella

Not Evaluated

Silver-Green Leaf Weevil

Phyllobius argentatus

Least Concern

Feathered slender

Caloptilia cuculipennella

Near Threatened

Gold-dot slender

Euspilapteryx auroguttella

Least Concern

Black Vine Weevil

Otiorhynchus sulcatus

Least Concern

glanville fritellary

Melitaea cinxia

Critically Endangered

Large-Neck Clam

Mya arenaria

Vulnerable

Willow bent-wing

Phyllocnistis saligna

Least Concern

Poplar bent-wing

Phyllocnistis unipunctella

Not Evaluated

Western Conifer Seed Bug

Leptoglossus occidentalis

Not Evaluated

mouflon

Ovis aries

Not Evaluated

Canine chewing louse

Trichodectes canis

Not Evaluated

Angled Hydromedusa

Gonionemus vertens

Not Evaluated

meadow brown

Maniola jurtina

Least Concern

Orange-banded arion

Arion fasciatus

Least Concern

long tailed mealybug

Pseudococcus longispinus

Not Evaluated

Firebrat

Thermobia domestica

Not Evaluated

Greenhouse white fly

Trialeurodes vaporariorum

Not Evaluated

Argentine ant

Linepithema humile

Not Evaluated

Carthusian snail

Monacha cartusiana

Endangered

Bog Fritillary

Boloria eunomia

Least Concern

bulb-eating slug

Tandonia rustica

Not Evaluated

Sowerby's keeled slug

Tandonia sowerbyi

Data Deficient

lesser grain borer

Rhyzopertha dominica

Not Evaluated

Greenhouse slug

Milax gagates

Data Deficient

Lesser mealworm

Alphitobius diaperinus

Least Concern

White-marked spider beetle

Ptinus fur

Least Concern

Silver Meadow

Boloria selene

Extinct

Lined flat bark beetle

Cryptolestes ferrugineus

Least Concern

glossy pillar snail

Cochlicopa lubrica

Data Deficient

Longbodied cellar spider

Pholcus phalangioides

Least Concern

Colonial Sea Squirt

Botrylloides violaceus

Not Evaluated

Asian Tiger Mosquito

Aedes albopictus

Not Evaluated

Bean weevil

Acanthoscelides obtectus

Not Evaluated

purple emperor

Apatura iris

Endangered

least weasel

Mustela nivalis

Near Threatened

European polecat

Mustela putorius

Vulnerable

Leafminer fly

Liriomyza trifolii

Not Evaluated

Silver Fir Woolly Aphid

Adelges nordmannianae

Not Evaluated

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