Endangered Insects of Australia

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Common Name	Range ***
Ancient Greenling	Australia (Tasmania and Victoria)
Angled Tiger	Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands
Australian Ant	Australia
Austrosaga spinifer	Australia
Bathurst Copper	Australia
Beautiful Petaltail	Australia (Queensland)
Cromwell Chafer Beetle	New Zealand
Crow Tiger	Solomon Islands
Giant Torrent Midge	Australia
Graphium spp. (1)	India, Indian Ocean (Comoro Islands), Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands
Hemisaga spp. (3)	Australia
Illidge's Ant-blue (Butterfly)	Australia
Ixalodectes flectocercus	Australia
Kawanphila pachomai	Australia
Kyidris media	Papua New Guinea
Kyidris yaleogyna	Papua New Guinea
Large Blue Lake Mayfly	Australia
Lichen Weevil	Papua New Guinea
Lord Howe Island Stick-insect	Australia
Moerner's Swallowtail Butterfly	Papua New Guinea
Mount Donna Buang Wingless Stonefly	Australia
Mount Kosciusko Wingless Stonefly	Australia
Myrmecia inquilina	Australia
Nanodectes bulbicercus	Australia
New Ireland Yellow Tiger	Papua New Guinea
Pachysaga spp. (2)	Australia
Phasmodes jeeba	Australia
Pitt Island Longhorn Beetle	New Zealand
Poor Knights Weta	New Zealand
Psacadonotus insulanus	Australia
Queen Alexandra's Birdwing Butterfly	Papua New Guinea
Rhantus alutaceus	New Caledonia
Schayer's Grasshopper	Australia
Schneider's Surprise	Solomon Islands
Small Fanwinged Katydid	Australia
Southern Tailed Birdwing	Papua New Guinea
Spartan Crow	Papua New Guinea
Stephens Island Weta	New Zealand
Strumigenys xenos	Australia, New Zealand
Sydney Hawk Dragonfly	Australia (New South Wales)
Tasmanian Torrent Midge	Australia (Tasmania)
Tasmanoplectron isolatum	Australia
Throscodectes spp. (2)	Australia
Thylacine Darner	Australia
Wetapunga	New Zealand
Windbalea viride	Australia
Zaprochilus ninae	Australia

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**What insects are listed here?:

The Australia section of this site lists the folllowing insects appearing on select endangered species lists:

Insects that dwell in or migrate to any region found on the Australian continent and any nearby islands.
Insects that dwell in or travel to New Zealand and any nearby islands.
Insects that dwell in Papua New Guinea and nearby islands (east of Indonesia).

Disclaimer:
This list combines species from several endangered species lists. Using the total count of species found on this site as an official count of endangered species of the world is not recommended. For more information on what creatures are listed on this site, please visit our About EEC page.

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