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Belgium

Europe · Western Europe

Total Species
12026
Threatened
331
CR + EN + VU
Population
11,589,616
Area
30,528 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 32
Endangered 116
Vulnerable 183
Near Threatened 172
Least Concern 1532
Data Deficient 119
Not Evaluated 2098
Extinct 39

Species by Taxonomic Group

Animalia 5675
Plantae 3894
Fungi 2229
Protozoa 121
Chromista 104
Bacteria 3

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Belgium

rhubarb

Rheum rhaponticum

Extinct

Lesser Gray Shrike

Lanius minor

Not Evaluated

Spotted Plant Bug

Closterotomus fulvomaculatus

Least Concern

lesser honeywort

Cerinthe minor

Not Evaluated

White Flatweed

Hypochaeris microcephala

Not Evaluated

Root-maggot fly

Terellia ruficauda

Least Concern

Silphid beetle

Silpha carinata

Critically Endangered

Ladybird Beetle

Scymnus suturalis

Least Concern

Lakes Marble

Celypha rufana

Least Concern

lesser marsh grasshopper

Chorthippus albomarginatus

Near Threatened

Lesser Love-Grass

Eragrostis minor

Not Evaluated

lesser marbled fritillary

Brenthis ino

Least Concern

Cambridge Groundling

Scrobipalpa pauperella

Least Concern

Lesser mealworm

Alphitobius diaperinus

Least Concern

Lesser Milk-vetch

Astragalus odoratus

Not Evaluated

Cranefly

Nephrotoma cornicina

Least Concern

Lesser Pearl

Sitochroa verticalis

Least Concern

lesser pocket moss

Fissidens bryoides

Not Evaluated

Lesser pond sedge

Carex acutiformis

Vulnerable

Lodgepole Pine

Pinus contorta

Not Evaluated

Lesser Prickly Sedge

Carex muricata

Near Threatened

Lesser Puss Moth

Cerura erminea

Not Evaluated

Lesser Red-knotgrass

Polygonum arenarium

Not Evaluated

long tailed mealybug

Pseudococcus longispinus

Not Evaluated

Lost Flat-Body

Depressaria depressana

Endangered

Lesser Sea-Spurrey

Spergularia marina

Least Concern

Long Thin Plant Bug

Megaloceroea recticornis

Least Concern

Field Damsel Bug

Nabis ferus

Least Concern

Reed Damsel Bug

Nabis lineatus

Least Concern

Long-winged Groundling

Gelechia cuneatella

Vulnerable

Little Blue Carpenter Bee

Ceratina cyanea

Least Concern

Lesser Siren

Siren intermedia

Least Concern

Black Woodpecker

Dryocopus martius

Near Threatened

lesser slippery moss snail

Cochlicopa lubricella

Data Deficient

Little Bent-wing

Leucoptera lotella

Not Evaluated

Long-legged fly

Dolichopus plumitarsis

Extinct

Fleabane case-bearer

Coleophora inulae

Not Evaluated

Pittosporum pit scale

Planchonia arabidis

Not Evaluated

Seed bug

Metopoplax ditomoides

Not Evaluated

Small streaked case-bearer

Coleophora gardesanella

Not Evaluated

White nose syndrome

Pseudogymnoascus destructans

Not Evaluated

Flowering Currant

Ribes sanguineum

Not Evaluated

lesser-spotted pinion

Cosmia affinis

Endangered

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker

Dryobates minor

Near Threatened

Lesser Squirrel-tail Moss

Habrodon perpusillus

Endangered

Lesser Star-thistle

Centaurea diluta

Not Evaluated

Lesser Striated Feather-moss

Plasteurhynchium striatulum

Vulnerable

Lesser Swallow Prominent

Pheosia gnoma

Least Concern

Light brown apple moth

Epiphyas postvittana

Not Evaluated

Oriental leopard's-bane

Doronicum orientale

Not Evaluated

Woodland white worm

Octolasion tyrtaeum

Not Evaluated

Lesser swinecress

Lepidium didymum

Not Evaluated

Silver-edged Knot-horn

Pima boisduvaliella

Vulnerable

Pantaloon Bee

Dasypoda hirtipes

Vulnerable

Small Timber Clothes Moth

Triaxomasia caprimulgella

Critically Endangered

Hercules-all-heal

Opopanax chironium

Not Evaluated

Silverleaf cotoneaster

Cotoneaster pannosus

Not Evaluated

lesser tussock-sedge

Carex diandra

Critically Endangered

mocha

Cyclophora annularia

Not Evaluated

Black Tern

Chlidonias niger

Least Concern

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