Species list for Habitat «Extensively managed mountain grassland»
Region: Valais Alps
Height: 2000-2025m ASL
Description: Extensively managed mountain grassland.
Height: 2000-2025m ASL
Description: Extensively managed mountain grassland.
In this habitat, we have so far been able to prove the following creatures and plants, among others:
Reptiles
Snakes
Number of species: 1
Fauna
Insects (Insecta)
Ants (Formicidae)
- Temnothorax albipennis
Number of species: 2
Bees (Apoidea)
- Sphecodes ephippius, LC
- Andrena cineraria
- Halictus rubicundus, LC
Number of species: 4
Flies (Brachycera)
- Episyrphus balteatus
- Sphaerophoria scripta
Number of species: 3
Grasshoppers (Orthoptera)
- Decticus verrucivorus, NT
- Tetrix bipunctata, NT
Number of species: 3
Beetles (Coleoptera)
- Larinus brevis
- Pterostichus burmeisteri, LC
- Prosternon chrysocomum
- Carabus irregularis, VU
- Subcoccinella vigintiquatuorpunctata
Number of species: 6
Butterflies (Lepidoptera)
- Macaria carbonaria
- Callophrys rubi, LC
- Erynnis tages, LC
- Colias hyale, LC
- Pyrgus malvoides, LC
- Phytometra viridaria
- Pyrgus malvae, LC
Number of species: 8
Bugs (Heteroptera)
- Coriomeris denticulatus
- Dicranocephalus medius
- Stictopleurus abutilon
- Rhyparochromus pini
- Nabis rugosus
- Nabis ferus
- Dolycoris baccarum
- Rhynocoris annulatus
Number of species: 9
Wasps (Vespidae)
- Polistes biglumis
Number of species: 2
Spiders (Araneae)
Number of species: 1
Flora
Flowers
- Polygala chamaebuxus, LC
- Geum montanum, LC
- Potentilla pusilla, LC
- Soldanella alpina, LC
- Oxytropis halleri ssp. velutina, NT
- Hippocrepis comosa, LC
- Pulsatilla apiifolia
- Draba aizoides, LC
- Gentiana acaulis, LC
- Trollius europaeus, LC
- Euphorbia cyparissias, LC
- Arctostaphylos uva-ursi blooming, LC
- Biscutella laevigata, LC
- Dactylorhiza sambucina blooming, NT, protected CH
- Dryas octopetala, LC
- Gentiana verna, LC
- Pulsatilla vernalis, LC
- Viola calcarata, LC
Number of species: 19
Total number of species58
On the Red Lists in CH: 33 / 58 = 56.9%
Protected species in CH: 2 / 58 = 3.4%
On the Red Lists in CH: 33 / 58 = 56.9%
Protected species in CH: 2 / 58 = 3.4%
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 | 1 | 3.0 | 1 | 3.0 |
| VU | Vulnerable | 1 | 3.0 | 2 | 6.1 |
| NT | Near endangered | 4 | 12.1 | 6 | 18.2 |
| LC | Not endangered | 27 | 81.8 | 33 | 100.0 |
| DD | Insufficient data | 0 | 0.0 | ||
| NE | Not rated | 0 | 0.0 | ||
| Total | 33 | 100.0 |


