Example Endangered Arthropods
The following is a very small fraction of the potentially hundreds of thousands of endangered arthropods, limited to species which have been formally recognized as to their special conservation status:
- Alabama cave shrimp (Palaemonias alabamae)
- California freshwater shrimp (Syncaris pacifica)
- Delhi Sands flower-loving fly (Rhaphiomidas terminatus abdominalis), due to severely limited range of habitat and development
- Kentucky cave shrimp (Palaemonias ganteri)
- Salt Creek tiger beetle (Cicindela nevadica lincolniana)
- San Bruno elfin butterfly (Incisalia mossii bayensis), due to limited range of habitat and development encroachment
- Smith's blue butterfly (Euphilotes enoptes smithidue), to human overpopulation of coastal dunes areas and associated highway and land development
- Spruce-fir moss spider (Microhexura montivaga)
- Tasmanian giant freshwater crayfish (Astacopsis gouldi)
- Tooth cave spider (Neoleptoneta myopica)
- Poecilotheria Parachute Tarantula (Poecilotheria spp)
- White-clawed crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes)
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