Endangered Arthropod - Example Endangered Arthropods

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)