Endangered Insects of North America**
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| Common Name | Range *** |
|---|---|
| Acanthomyops spp. (2) | Maryland, Michigan |
| Acuminate Snaketail | Alabama, Tennessee |
| American Burying Beetle | Eastern Canada, USA Eastern States south to Florida, west to South Dakota and Texas |
| Aphaenogaster bidentatus | United States |
| Appalachian Snaketail | Alabama, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia |
| Arizona Giant Sand Treader Cricket | Arizona |
| Avalon Hairstreak | California |
| Belkin's Dune Tabanid Fly | California, Mexico |
| Belle's Sanddragon | Alabama, Florida, North Carolina |
| Big Pine Key Conehead Katydid | Florida |
| Blind Cave Beetle | United States |
| Boisduval's Blue Butterfly | California, Oregon |
| Callippe Silverspot Butterfly | California |
| Calvert's Emerald | Alabama, Florida, South Carolina |
| Carson Wandering Skipper | California, Nevada |
| Cherokee Clubtail | United States |
| Ciervo Scarab Beetle | California |
| Coachelia Giant Sand Treader Cricket | California |
| Coachella Valley Jerusalem Cricket | California |
| Coffin Cave Mold Beetle | Texas |
| Columbia Clubtail | Oregon, Washington |
| Columbia River Tiger Beetle | Idaho, Oregon, Washington |
| Comal Springs Dryopid Beetle | Texas |
| Comal Springs Riffle Beetle | Texas |
| Crematogaster spp. (1) | Guatemala, United States |
| Cresent Dune Scarab Beetle | Nevada |
| Dakota Skipper | Canada, United States |
| Delhi Sands Flower-loving Fly | California |
| Delta Green Ground Beetle | California |
| Desert Monkey Grasshopper | United States |
| Diminutive Clubtail | Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee |
| Donnelly's Knobtail | Mexico (Vera Cruz) |
| Doronomyrmex spp. (1) | Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland |
| Dorymyrmex insanus | United States |
| Edmund's Snaketail | Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee |
| El Segundo Blue Butterfly | California |
| Everglades Sprite | Florida |
| Flint's Knobtail | Mexico (Oaxaca) |
| Formica spp. (2) | United States |
| Formicoxenus spp. (3) | Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, United States |
| Franklin's Bumble Bee | California, Oregon |
| Gammon's Riffle Beetle | Alabama, North Carolina, Virginia |
| Giuliani's Dune Scarab Beetle | Nevada |
| Globose Dune Beetle | California, Mexico |
| Ground Beetle (2) | Texas |
| Guatemalan Rubyspot | Mexico |
| Harpagoxenus spp. (1) | Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, United States |
| Helotes Mold Beetle | Texas |
| Hermes Copper | California, Mexico |
| Hine's Emerald Dragonfly | Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin |
| Hodges' Clubtail | Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi |
| Hungerford's Crawling Water Beetle | Canada, Michigan |
| Idaho Point-headed Grasshopper | Idaho |
| Ischnura spp. (1) | California, Ethiopia |
| Karner Blue Butterfly | Canada (Ontario), Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin |
| Kelso Giant Sand Treader Cricket | California |
| Kelso Jerusalem Cricket | California |
| Keys Scaly Cricket | Florida |
| Keys Short-winged Conehead Katydid | Florida |
| Kretschmarr Cave Mold Beetle | Texas |
| Laguna Mountains Skipper | California |
| Lange's Metalmark Butterfly | California |
| Laricis Tree Cricket | Michigan, Ohio |
| Leptothorax spp. (3) | Canada, Switzerland, United States |
| Lompoc Grasshopper | California |
| Lotis Blue Butterfly | California |
| Macromia spp. (1) | France, Japan, Portugal, Spain, Sri Lanka, United States |
| Manica parasitica | California |
| Michigan Bog Grasshopper | Michigan |
| Middlekauf's Shieldback Katydid | California |
| Mitchell's Satyr Butterfly | Indiana, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio |
| Monomorium spp. (3) | Algeria, India, Mexico, Singapore, Tunisia, United States |
| Mount Charleston Blue Butterfly | Nevada |
| Mount St. Helens' Grylloblattid | United States |
| Mt. Hermon June Beetle | California |
| Myrmica spp. (3) | Algeria, Belgium, Canada, France, India, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States |
| Navajo Jerusalem Cricket | Arizona |
| Ohlone Tiger Beetle | California |
| Ozark Emerald | Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma |
| Palos Verdes Blue Butterfly | California |
| Papilio esperanza | Mexico |
| Paulson's Knobtail | Mexico (Chiapas) |
| Pheidole spp. (2) | Argentina, Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire), Guyana, India, Madagascar, United States (Colorado) |
| Pinaleno Monkey Grasshopper | Arizona |
| Pogonomyrmex spp. (2) | United States |
| Polyergus lucidus | Florida, Indiana |
| Port Conception Jerusalem Cricket | California |
| Prairie Sphinx Moth | United States |
| Protomognathus americanus | Indiana |
| Pseudomyrmex leptosus | United States |
| Puritan Tiger Beetle | Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont |
| Purple Skimmer | Florida |
| Quino Checkerspot Butterfly | California, Mexico |
| Ringed Boghaunter | Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Wisconsin |
| Ris's Sanddragon | Mexico |
| Sabino Dancer | Arizona, Mexico |
| Sacramento Anthicid Beetle | United States |
| Salt Creek Tiger Beetle | Nebraska |
| Samwell Cave Cricket | United States (California) |
| San Bruno Elfin Butterfly | California |
| San Joaquin Dune Beetle | California |
| Santa Monica Mountains Grasshopper | California |
| Santa Monica Shieldback Katydid | United States |
| Say's Spiketail | Florida, Georgia |
| Scarlet Bluet | Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island |
| Schaus Swallowtail | Florida |
| Sierra Pygmy Grasshopper | California |
| Siskiyou Chloealtis Grasshopper | Oregon |
| Slave Raiding Ant | Indiana |
| Smith's Blue Butterfly | California |
| Southern Snaketail | Louisiana, Mississippi |
| Sugarfoot Moth Fly | Florida |
| Superb Spharagemon Grasshopper | Texas |
| Tanner's Black Camel Cricket | Utah |
| Tennessee Clubtail | Tennessee |
| Texas Emerald | Louisiana, Texas |
| Tooth Cave Ground Beetle | Texas |
| Torreya Pygmy Grasshopper | Florida |
| Towne's Clubtail | Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee |
| Tuxtla Knobtail | Mexico (Vera Cruz) |
| Twin-striped Clubtail | Alabama, Florida, Georgia |
| Uncompahgre Fritillary Butterfly | Colorado |
| Westfall's Clubtail | Florida |
| Yellow-sided Clubtail | Florida, Mississippi |
| Zayante Band-winged Grasshopper | California |
| Zerene Fritillary | California |
| Zoe Waterfall Damsel | Mexico |
**What insects are listed here?:
The North America section of this site lists the folllowing insects appearing on select endangered species lists:- Insects that dwell in or migrate to any part of the North American continent, except Hawaii, which has its own section.
- Insects of Greenland and adjacent Atlantic islands.
- Insects of the Mexican Holarctic.
- Insects of the Gulf of Maine.
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.
