Endangered Insects of North America**
| Show insects in North America with profiles available. | |
| Show all insects of concern in North America. |
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| Common Name | Range *** |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Cherokee Clubtail | United States |
| Ciervo Scarab Beetle | California |
| Coffin Cave Mold Beetle | Texas |
| 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 |
| Edmund's Snaketail | Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee |
| El Segundo Blue Butterfly | California |
| Everglades Sprite | Florida |
| 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 |
| Ground Beetle (2) | Texas |
| Guatemalan Rubyspot | 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 |
| Karner Blue Butterfly | Canada (Ontario), Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin |
| Keys Short-winged Conehead Katydid | Florida |
| Kretschmarr Cave Mold Beetle | Texas |
| Laguna Mountains Skipper | California |
| Lange's Metalmark Butterfly | California |
| Leptothorax spp. (3) | Canada, Switzerland, United States |
| Lompoc Grasshopper | California |
| Lotis Blue Butterfly | California |
| Michigan Bog Grasshopper | Michigan |
| Middlekauf's Shieldback Katydid | California |
| Mitchell's Satyr Butterfly | Indiana, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio |
| 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 |
| Ohlone Tiger Beetle | California |
| Ozark Emerald | Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma |
| Palos Verdes Blue Butterfly | California |
| Pheidole spp. (2) | Argentina, Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire), Guyana, India, Madagascar, United States (Colorado) |
| Pinaleno Monkey Grasshopper | Arizona |
| Polyergus lucidus | Florida, Indiana |
| Prairie Sphinx Moth | United States |
| Pseudomyrmex leptosus | United States |
| Puritan Tiger Beetle | Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont |
| Quino Checkerspot Butterfly | California, Mexico |
| Ringed Boghaunter | Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Wisconsin |
| Ris's Sanddragon | Mexico |
| Salt Creek Tiger Beetle | Nebraska |
| San Bruno Elfin Butterfly | California |
| San Joaquin Dune Beetle | California |
| Scarlet Bluet | Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island |
| Schaus Swallowtail | Florida |
| Sierra Pygmy Grasshopper | California |
| Slave Raiding Ant | Indiana |
| Smith's Blue Butterfly | California |
| Sugarfoot Moth Fly | Florida |
| Tanner's Black Camel Cricket | Utah |
| Texas Emerald | Louisiana, Texas |
| Tooth Cave Ground Beetle | Texas |
| Twin-striped Clubtail | Alabama, Florida, Georgia |
| Uncompahgre Fritillary Butterfly | Colorado |
| 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.
