ESWATINI (SWAZILAND)
Plants
unique to Eswatini include an orchid Disa intermedia (iNaturalist),
a red hot poker Kniphofia umbrina (ENTC
WM)
(iNaturalist),
Erica swaziensis
(ARKive
WM) (ENTC
WM),
Ceropegia swaziorum
(ENTC
WM)
(iNaturalist),
Senecio
mlilwanensis (ENTC
WM)
(iNaturalist),
Eumorphia
swaziensis (ENTC
WM)
(iNaturalist),
Cyphia pectinata
(IUCN),
Orthosiphon vernalis
(ENTC
WM),
Ledebouria (or Drimiopsis) pusilla (SANBI)
(iNaturalist),
Ledebouria (or Drimiopsis) comptonii (SANBI)
(iNaturalist),
Drimiopsis reilleyana
(iNaturalist),
Cineraria
ngwenyensis (ENTC
WM), Syncolostemon
comptonii (ENTC
WM), Rhoicissus
napaeus (IUCN),
Indigofera lomatiensis
(p. 36 of Muti
Muti pdf),
Metathelypteris
burrowsiorum (ResearchGate),
Barleria
lebomboensis
(iNaturalist),
Afroaster
pseudobakeranus (JSTOR),
Dierama elatum
(JSTOR)
(ENTC
WM),
Eragrostis
comptonii (JSTOR),
Callilepis retiefiae
(PLAZI),
Selago swaziensis
(iNaturalist), Hesperantha
umbricola (GBIF),
and Aeschynomene
stipitata (IUCN).
Pachycarpus
stelliceps (JSTOR)
is possibly extinct and the cycad Encephalartos
relictus (Africa
Cycads) (World
List of Cycads WM)
is extinct in the wild.
The Swazi Flat Gecko Afroedura
major (pachydactylus.com
WM)
(Reptile
Database) is the sole endemic vertebrate species.
Insects known only from Eswatini include the grasshoppers Swaziacris burtti (Biodiversity Explorer WM) and Acrida fumata (OSF), an ant Tetramorium plumosum (AntWiki), the dung beetles Gyronotus schuelei (ResearchGate) and Sisyphus swazi (GBIF), the longhorn beetles Plectopsebium bellamyi (Cerambycidae Species WM) and Prosopocera capeneri (p. 3 of Cerambycoidea.com pdf), a tiger beetle Dromica thomaswiesneri (p. 2 of ResearchGate pdf), a carpet beetle Orphinus alinae (fig. 1 at ResearchGate), a rove beetle Pachorhopala mlilwanensis (fig. 42 at Contributions to Entomology pdf), the leafroller moths Clepsis gnathocera (p. 8 of PPE WM pdf) and Malolotia malolotiana (fig. 112 at Semantic Scholar), a cossid moth Aethalopteryx rudloffi (fig. 20 on p. 127 of ZOBODAT pdf), a case-bearer moth Coleophora swaziella (GBIF), a robber fly Dasophrys swazi (p. 53 of Sabinet pdf), and a small dung fly Scutelliseta swaziana (fig. 16 at Sabinet pdf).
Other
endemic invertebrates include the centipedes Geoperingueyia
minor (CHILOBASE)
and Polygonarea
clavigera (CHILOBASE).
Portions of Eswatini are included in the Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany
biodiversity hotspot (Biodiversity
Hotspots WM).
Terrestrial ecoregions include the
Maputaland Coastal Forest Mosaic (WWF
WM),
the Zambezian and Mopane Woodlands (WWF
WM),
the Drakensberg Montane Grasslands, Woodlands, and Forests (WWF
WM).
For more information on Eswatini's endemic species see (Eswatini's
Biodiversity)
and (Eswatini's
Biodiversity) and (Muti
Muti pdf).