The Corsican hare is native to central and southern Italy and Sicily. The population on Corsica is considered introduced.
Fur on the neck, shoulders and hips is reddish grey, the back is grey-black, and the underside is white. The ears have black tips.
The Corsican hare, also called the Italian hare, lives in central and southern Italy and Sicily. From 2015 to 2019, researchers collected droppings across several central and southern Italian areas and used DNA to identify plant foods. The diet analysis used 101 samples and recorded plants from 62 families.
Five families—Fagaceae, Fabaceae, Poaceae, Rosaceae, and Solanaceae—made up about 90% of diet DNA reads. Fabaceae was most abundant in spring and summer, while Fagaceae was most abundant in autumn and winter; spring and summer diets had greater plant richness and diversity. A habitat model based on 759 genetically validated locations showed continuous suitable areas in the central Apennines and more scattered patches in southern and coastal areas.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
The model found overlap in environmental variables associated with the Italian hare and the European hare, which shares parts of its range. Their observed altitudinal distributions differed significantly in this study.