Species list for Habitat «Species-rich mountain grassland»
Region: Valais Alps
Height: 2600m ASL
Description: Species-rich mountain grassland. Flat and with a slight southeast-facing slope. A small snow valley follows uphill.
In this habitat, we have so far been able to prove the following creatures and plants, among others:
Fauna
Insects (Insecta)
Bees (Apoidea)
- Bombus soroeensis
- Bombus cryptarum
Grasshoppers (Orthoptera)
- Gomphocerus sibiricus
- Chorthippus mollis
- Bohemanella frigida
Beetles (Coleoptera)
- Dasytes obscurus
Earwigs (Dermaptera)
- Anechura bipunctata
Butterflies (Lepidoptera)
- Pyrausta aerealis
- Erebia tyndarus
- Melitaea athalia adult
- Parasemia plantaginis
- Zygaena exulans caterpillar
Bugs (Heteroptera)
- Odontoscelis fuliginosa
Wasps (Vespidae)
- Pimpla rufipes
Spiders (Araneae)
- Thanatus coloradensis
Flora
Flowers
- Aster alpinus
- Herniaria alpina
- Helianthemum alpestre
- Oxytropis campestris
- Ranunculus montanus
- Leontopodium alpinum
- Erigeron uniflorus
- Saxifraga exarata ssp. exarata
- Saxifraga oppositifolia
- Geum montanum
- Senecio incanus
- Gentiana schleicheri
- Pedicularis kerneri
- Polygonum viviparum
- Minuartia sedoides
- Achillea nana
- Anthyllis vulneraria ssp. alpestris
- Bartsia alpina
- Dryas octopetala
- Ranunculus alpestris
- Sedum atratum
- Sempervivum arachnoideum
- Silene acaulis
- Thymus polytrichus
- Veronica fruticans
- Viola calcarata
Number of species: 41