Species list for Habitat «Extensively managed mountain grassland»
Region: Valais Alps
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
- Vipera aspis
Fauna
Insects (Insecta)
Ants (Formicidae)
- Formica sanguinea
- Temnothorax albipennis
Bees (Apoidea)
- Lasioglossum morio
- Sphecodes ephippius
- Andrena cineraria
- Halictus rubicundus
Flies (Brachycera)
- Cheilosia caerulescens
- Episyrphus balteatus
- Sphaerophoria scripta
Grasshoppers (Orthoptera)
- Gomphocerus sibiricus
- Decticus verrucivorus
- Tetrix bipunctata
Beetles (Coleoptera)
- Chrysolina oricalcia
- Larinus brevis
- Pterostichus burmeisteri
- Prosternon chrysocomum
- Carabus irregularis
- Subcoccinella vigintiquatuorpunctata
Butterflies (Lepidoptera)
- Vanessa atalanta
- Macaria carbonaria
- Callophrys rubi
- Erynnis tages
- Colias hyale
- Pyrgus malvoides
- Phytometra viridaria
- Pyrgus malvae
Bugs (Heteroptera)
- Nabis pseudoferus
- Coriomeris denticulatus
- Dicranocephalus medius
- Stictopleurus abutilon
- Rhyparochromus pini
- Nabis rugosus
- Nabis ferus
- Dolycoris baccarum
- Rhynocoris annulatus
Wasps (Vespidae)
- Athalia circularis
- Polistes biglumis
Spiders (Araneae)
- Aculepeira ceropegia
Flora
Flowers
- Arabis ciliata
- Polygala chamaebuxus
- Geum montanum
- Potentilla pusilla
- Soldanella alpina
- Dactylorhiza sambucina
- Oxytropis halleri ssp. velutina
- Hippocrepis comosa
- Pulsatilla apiifolia
- Draba aizoides
- Trollius europaeus
- Euphorbia cyparissias
- Arctostaphylos uva-ursi blooming
- Biscutella laevigata
- Dryas octopetala
- Gentiana verna
- Pulsatilla vernalis
- Viola calcarata
Number of species: 57