Species list for Habitat «Barren land»
Region: Valais Alps
CH coordinates: 653896 / 133913
Height: 2580m ASL
Description: Soil of fine rocky debris with few grasses and flowers (e.g. counter-leaved saxifrage) and lichens.
The barren area is not used as alpine pasture.
In this habitat, we have so far been able to prove the following creatures and plants, among others:
Plants
Fauna
Insects
Flies (Brachycera)
- Acrosathe annulata
- Helina reversio
Grasshoppers (Orthoptera)
- Bohemanella frigida
Beetles (Coleoptera)
- Dasytes obscurus
- Phyllobius glaucus
- Heptaulacus testudinarius
- Malthodes flavoguttatus
- Cicindela gallica
Butterflies (Lepidoptera)
- Malacosoma alpicola Raupe
- Metaxmeste schrankiana
- Setina aurita caterpillar
- Zygaena exulans adult
Wasps (Vespidae)
- Ichneumon stramentarius
Spiders (Araneae)
- Gnaphosa lucifuga
- Thanatus coloradensis
- Aelurillus v-insignitus
Flowers
- Aster alpinus
- Herniaria alpina
- Trifolium alpinum
- Oxytropis campestris
- Leontopodium alpinum
- Saxifraga oppositifolia
- Gentiana schleicheri
- Gentiana nivalis
- Anthyllis vulneraria ssp. alpestris
- Beetles
- Campanula cochleariifolia
- Dryas octopetala
- Euphrasia minima
- Gypsophila repens
- Saxifraga paniculata
- Sedum atratum
- Silene acaulis
Lichens (Lichen)
- Psora decipiens
Shrubs
- Salix serpillifolia
Number of species: 35