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Italy

Europe · Southern Europe

Total Species
1910
Threatened
74
CR + EN + VU
Population
60,461,828
Area
301,336 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 16
Endangered 25
Vulnerable 33
Near Threatened 63
Least Concern 499
Data Deficient 24
Not Evaluated 1217
Extinct 20

Species by Taxonomic Group

Animalia 955
Plantae 918
Chromista 20
Fungi 15
Bacteria 2

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Italy

contracted glass snail

Vitrea contracta

Least Concern

pellucid glass snail

Vitrina pellucida

Least Concern

tree slug

Lehmannia marginata

Least Concern

lemon slug

Malacolimax tenellus

Data Deficient

Yellow gardenslug

Limacus flavus

Least Concern

European Giant Gardenslug

Limax maximus

Least Concern

fish leech

Piscicola geometra

Not Evaluated

lesser slippery moss snail

Cochlicopa lubricella

Data Deficient

Darkling beetle

Tribolium destructor

Least Concern

Longhorned crazy ant

Paratrechina longicornis

Not Evaluated

Pantropical mini-ponerine ant

Hypoponera punctatissima

Not Evaluated

Budapest slug

Tandonia budapestensis

Least Concern

Sweetpotato whitefly

Bemisia tabaci

Not Evaluated

European brown snail

Cornu aspersum

Not Evaluated

Banded Wood Snail

Cepaea nemoralis

Least Concern

Japanese carpet shell

Ruditapes philippinarum

Not Evaluated

Darkface arion

Arion distinctus

Least Concern

Hedgehog arion

Arion intermedius

Least Concern

cape hare

Lepus capensis

Least Concern

aoudad

Ammotragus lervia

Vulnerable

Common Slender

Gracillaria syringella

Least Concern

Firethorn leaf-miner

Phyllonorycter leucographella

Not Evaluated

London midget

Phyllonorycter platani

Not Evaluated

pinhead spot

Paralaoma servilis

Not Evaluated

dwarf snail

Punctum pygmaeum

Near Threatened

neglected dune snail

Cernuella neglecta

Data Deficient

Clouded Yellow

Colias croceus

Least Concern

Potbellied helicellid

Cochlicella barbara

Critically Endangered

pointed helicellid

Cochlicella acuta

Near Threatened

Box tree moth

Cydalima perspectalis

Not Evaluated

California Quail

Callipepla californica

Not Evaluated

orange anemone

Diadumene cincta

Not Evaluated

American Cupped Oyster

Crassostrea virginica

Not Evaluated

Draparnaud's Glass Snail

Oxychilus draparnaudi

Not Evaluated

Thrips

Parthenothrips dracaenae

Not Evaluated

Western flower thrips

Frankliniella occidentalis

Not Evaluated

Moth

Grapholita molesta

Not Evaluated

European Spruce Needleminer Moth

Epinotia nanana

Least Concern

Thrips

Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis

Not Evaluated

Khapra beetle

Trogoderma granarium

Not Evaluated

Cocoa moth

Ephestia elutella

Least Concern

Indian Meal Moth

Plodia interpunctella

Not Evaluated

Almond moth

Cadra cautella

Not Evaluated

Bark Snail

Zonitoides arboreus

Not Evaluated

black gloss

Zonitoides nitidus

Least Concern

clear glass snail

Aegopinella pura

Vulnerable

eccentric grass snail

Vallonia excentrica

Near Threatened

ribbed grass snail

Vallonia costata

Least Concern

beautiful grass snail

Vallonia pulchella

Vulnerable

prickly snail

Acanthinula aculeata

Endangered

scotch argus

Erebia aethiops

Least Concern

Large Ringlet

Erebia euryale

Not Evaluated

Two Tailed Pasha

Charaxes jasius

Not Evaluated

Woodland Grayling

Hipparchia fagi

Near Threatened

false grayling

Arethusana arethusa

Least Concern

southern white admiral

Limenitis reducta

Least Concern

High Brown Fritillary

Fabriciana adippe

Least Concern

Freyer’S Fritillary

Melitaea phoebe

Least Concern

Gray Field Slug

Deroceras reticulatum

Least Concern

Red Fox

Vulpes vulpes

Least Concern

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