Malta
About 16 vascular
plant species are found exclusively in Malta (MaltaWildPlants
WM) including Malta's national
plant, the Maltese Rock Centaury (ARKive
WM).
Other endemic plants include the Maltese Dwarf Garlic (MaltaWildPlants),
the Maltese Cliff Orache (IUCN),
the Maltese
Sea Chamomile (MaltaWildPlants),
the Maltese Fleabane (MaltaWildPlants),
the Maltese Everlasting (IUCN),
the
Maltese Spurge (NaturaMalta
WM),
the
Maltese Sand Crocus (ResearchGate), the
Maltese Spider Orchid (iNaturalist),
the
Maltese Salt Tree (ARKive
WM),
the Maltese Sea
Lavender (iNaturalist),
Zerapha's
Sea Lavender (MaltaWildPlants),
another Sea Lavender Limonium
lanfrancoi (Phytotaxa),
the Maltese
Hyoseris (ARKive
WM),
the
Maltese Horned
Pondweed (MaltaWildPlants),
and the Maltese
Giant Fennel (iNaturalist).
Insects unique to Malta include DeLucca’s Moth Mniotype deluccai (Lepiforum),
an autostichid moth
Oegoconia deluccai
(figs. 36 & 37 at BHL), an owlet moth Nyctobrya
segunai (BioLib),
a bagworm moth Sciopetris
melitensis (BHL),
a fungus moth Eudarcia
melitensis (Univ.
Malta pdf),
a tortrix moth Cydia
sammuti (BHL),
a lizard beetle Stenostoma
melitense
(flickr),
the darkling beetles Pseudoseriscius
cameroni (Forum
Entomologi Italiani WM) and Isomira maltaica
(fig. 19 at foliaseriesa.cz
pdf),
a rove beetle Faronus
rica (GBIF),
the click beetles Cardiophorus
belonis (fig. 9 at Univ.
Malta pdf) and Haterumelater
schembrii (fig. 5 at Univ.
Malta pdf), a firefly Lampyris
pallida
(MaltaWildPlants)
(iNaturalist),
the
weevils Torneuma
maltense (ResearchGate)
and Alaocyba
melitensis (fig. 1 at zobodat.at
pdf), an
ichneumon wasp Temelucha
rea (J.
Hymenoptera Research), the chalcid wasps Rhaphitelus mathildae
(ResearchGate)
and Mesopolobus
melitensis (ResearchGate),
a planthopper Falcidius
ebejeri (FLOW
WM), and a leaf-miner fly Liriomyza
melitensis (GBIF).
Other
endemic invertebrates include a trapdoor spider Nemesia arboricola (MaltaWildPlants.com),
a palp-footed spider Palpimanus
punctatus (Albert
Gatt Floridia), a micro whipscorpion Eukoenenia
christiani (BHL),
the springtails Orchesella
melitensis (figs. 6-8 on p. 35 of
ISEZ
PAN WM pdf)
and Entomobrya
melitensis (figs. 3-4 on p. 35 of ISEZ
PAN WM pdf), and the cave-dwelling woodlice Armadillidium
aelleni (p. 67 of ERA
pdf) (BHL).
and Armadillidium
ghardalamensis (Facebook)
(p. 28 of issuu). Endemic snails
include Spratt’s
Top-snail Trochoidea
spratti (MaltaWildPlants.com),
Trochoidea gharlapsi
(flickr), Muticaria macrostoma (iNaturalist),
Lampedusa imitatrix
(Maltese
Endemic Landsnails WM), Lampedusa
melitensis (AnimalBase
WM),
Marmorana
melitensis (flickr),
Tudorella melitense
(iNaturalist)
(Maltese
Endemic Landsnails WM), the slug Deroceras golcheri (Semantic
Scholar), and the marine Maltese Top-shell Steromphala
nivosa (idscaro.net
WM) (p. 65 of ERA
pdf).
Vertebrates found only in Malta include four of the five subspecies of
the Maltese Wall Lizard Podarcis
filfolensis (lacerta.de)
and a subspecies of the Sicilian
Shrew Crocidura sicula
calypso (ERA
pdf) (p. 7 of ResearchGate
pdf).
Endemic
fungi include Xylaria
melitensis (ResearchGate)
and Puccinia melitellae
(GBIF).
Lichens known only from Malta include Caloplaca melitensis
(BHL)
and Thalloedema
paradoxum (BHL).
Malta is included in the Mediterranean Basin
biodiversity hotspot (Biodiversity
Hotspots WM).
For an overview of Malta's endemic species see (p. 179 of ERA
pdf), (ResearchGate),
and (MaltaWildPlants
WM).