Species list for Habitat «Barren glacier forefield, 2600m»
Region: Valais Alps
Height: 2600m ASL
Description: Barren glacier forefield with various watercourses. Ice sheet until about 1950. Calcareous rocks predominate.
Height: 2600m ASL
Description: Barren glacier forefield with various watercourses. Ice sheet until about 1950. Calcareous rocks predominate.
In this habitat, we have so far been able to prove the following creatures and plants, among others:
Fauna
Insects (Insecta)
Bees (Apoidea)
- Chelostoma rapunculi, LC
- Bombus cryptarum, LC
- Bombus sichelii, LC
Number of species: 4
Flies (Brachycera)
- Tachina magnicornis
- Eristalis tenax
- Scaeva pyrastri
- Syrphus ribesii
- Syrphus vitripennis
Number of species: 6
Butterflies (Lepidoptera)
Number of species: 1
Bugs (Heteroptera)
- Pachybrachius fracticollis
Number of species: 2
Wasps (Vespidae)
- Crabro peltatus
- Gelis agilis
- Pimpla rufipes
Number of species: 4
Spiders (Araneae)
Number of species: 1
Flora
Flowers
- Artemisia genipi, LC, protected CH
- Herniaria alpina, LC
- Leontodon montanus, LC
- Arabis caerulea, LC
- Erigeron uniflorus, LC
- Saxifraga oppositifolia, LC
- Doronicum grandiflorum, LC
- Tussilago farfara, LC
- Geum reptans, LC
- Saxifraga androsacea, LC
- Gentiana orbicularis, LC
- Saxifraga biflora, LC
- Achillea nana, LC
- Anthyllis vulneraria ssp. alpestris, LC
- Artemisia umbelliformis, LC, protected CH
- Campanula cenisia, LC
- Cirsium spinosissimum blooming, LC
- Hieracium piliferum, LC
- Leucanthemopsis alpina, LC
- Linaria alpina, LC
- Myosotis alpestris, LC
- Oxyria digyna, LC
- Saxifraga aizoides, LC
- Sedum atratum, LC
- Silene acaulis, LC
- Veronica alpina, LC
Number of species: 27
Ferns
Number of species: 1
Grasses
Number of species: 1
Shrubs
- Salix foetida, LC
- Salix retusa, LC
Number of species: 3
Total number of species50
On the Red Lists in CH: 37 / 50 = 74.0%
Protected species in CH: 2 / 50 = 4.0%
On the Red Lists in CH: 37 / 50 = 74.0%
Protected species in CH: 2 / 50 = 4.0%
Threat status according to Switzerland's Red Lists
| Status | Description | Quantity | % | Total RE-LC | % |
| RE | Extinct in Switzerland | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| CR | Critically endangered | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| EN | Highly endangered | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| VU | Vulnerable | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| NT | Near endangered | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| LC | Not endangered | 37 | 100.0 | 37 | 100.0 |
| DD | Insufficient data | 0 | 0.0 | ||
| NE | Not rated | 0 | 0.0 | ||
| Total | 37 | 100.0 |