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United States

North America · Northern America

Total Species
11292
Threatened
274
CR + EN + VU
Population
331.002.647
Area
9.833.517 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 42
Endangered 98
Vulnerable 134
Near Threatened 153
Least Concern 2196
Data Deficient 112
Not Evaluated 3438
Extinct in the Wild 1
Extinct 86

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 5386
Animalia 3833
Fungi 1835
Protozoa 86
Bacteria 78
Chromista 74

Featured Species

All Species in United States

read-headed ash borer

Neoclytus acuminatus

Not Evaluated

Longflowered veldtgrass

Ehrharta longiflora

Not Evaluated

Hydrilla leafcutter

Parapoynx diminutalis

Not Evaluated

Small-Flowered Winter-Cress

Barbarea stricta

Not Evaluated

Clustered clover

Trifolium glomeratum

Not Evaluated

Hickey'S Clubmoss

Dendrolycopodium hickeyi

Not Evaluated

Leafy spurge stem boring beetle

Oberea erythrocephala

Not Evaluated

Impunctate Cellophane Bee

Colletes impunctatus

Least Concern

Greenfoot Fibrecap

Inosperma calamistratum

Least Concern

White nose syndrome

Pseudogymnoascus destructans

Not Evaluated

Wasp

Trichomalus perfectus

Not Evaluated

Wasp

Hemitrichus seniculus

Not Evaluated

Red-bellied Squirrel

Sciurus aureogaster

Least Concern

Seed bug

Metopoplax ditomoides

Not Evaluated

Rose natal grass

Melinis repens

Not Evaluated

Redbox

Eucalyptus polyanthemos

Near Threatened

Witches' Whiskers Lichen

Usnea florida

Vulnerable

Pittosporum pit scale

Planchonia arabidis

Not Evaluated

Long-legged fly

Dolichopus plumitarsis

Extinct

Long Dash

Polites mystic

Least Concern

laurel-leaf snailseed

Cocculus laurifolius

Least Concern

Long Thin Plant Bug

Megaloceroea recticornis

Least Concern

Lost Flat-Body

Depressaria depressana

Endangered

Redshouldered ham beetle

Necrobia ruficollis

Endangered

Ross Sedge

Carex rossii

Least Concern

Large rove beetle

Quedius curtipennis

Least Concern

long tailed mealybug

Pseudococcus longispinus

Not Evaluated

Whiskered Camouflage Lichen

Melanelixia subargentifera

Data Deficient

Staph beetle

Quedius fellmani

Least Concern

Gorse tip moth

Agonopterix nervosa

Least Concern

Lesser Purple Fringed Orchid

Platanthera psycodes

Not Evaluated

Redflower ragleaf

Crassocephalum crepidioides

Not Evaluated

Red Tree Brain Fungus

Peniophora rufa

Least Concern

European pineneedle midge

Contarinia baeri

Not Evaluated

Fly

Coproica hirtula

Not Evaluated

Rove beetle

Ilyobates bennetti

Least Concern

Staph beetle

Aloconota insecta

Least Concern

Geraldton wax

Chamelaucium uncinatum

Not Evaluated

Redpurple ragwort

Senecio elegans

Not Evaluated

Rosarypea

Abrus precatorius

Least Concern

Cranefly

Nephrotoma cornicina

Least Concern

Ladybird Beetle

Scymnus suturalis

Least Concern

Rove beetle

Heterota plumbea

Data Deficient

Polychrome Dot Lichen

Bacidia polychroa

Extinct

Silphid beetle

Silpha carinata

Critically Endangered

Redflower gum

Corymbia ficifolia

Near Threatened

Root-maggot fly

Terellia ruficauda

Least Concern

Golden leafroller moth

Acleris holmiana

Least Concern

Plane anthracnose

Apiognomonia veneta

Not Evaluated

White Flatweed

Hypochaeris microcephala

Not Evaluated

Silky White Stain Lichen

Julella sericea

Not Evaluated

Red ginger

Alpinia purpurata

Not Evaluated

Redgum

Corymbia calophylla

Near Threatened

Spotted Plant Bug

Closterotomus fulvomaculatus

Least Concern

Rainbow tortoise beetle

Cassida azurea

Not Evaluated

Red-Head Pondweed

Potamogeton richardsonii

Least Concern

Mullein Bug

Campylomma verbasci

Least Concern

Red-legged frog

Rana aurora

Least Concern

Booklice

Cuneopalpus cyanops

Not Evaluated

Shining feather-winged beetle

Ptenidium nitidum

Least Concern

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