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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

Green garden looper

Chrysodeixis eriosoma

Not Evaluated

Braconid wasp

Praon flavinode

Not Evaluated

Hornwort

Dendroceros crispus

Not Evaluated

Bent-foot speedwell

Veronica campylopoda

Not Evaluated

Bentgrass

Lachnagrostis filiformis

Not Evaluated

Bent-grass nematode

Anguina agrostis

Not Evaluated

Brown Ear

Otidea cochleata

Vulnerable

Bear'S Head Tooth

Hericium americanum

Not Evaluated

Blackberry skeletonizer

Schreckensteinia festaliella

Least Concern

Bent Ring Lichen

Arctoparmelia incurva

Critically Endangered

Black Army Cutworm

Actebia fennica

Not Evaluated

Berlandier'S Goosefoot

Chenopodium berlandieri

Not Evaluated

Parasitoid wasp

Spalangia cameroni

Not Evaluated

Bitter Tube Lichen

Hypogymnia bitteri

Near Threatened

Bitter Wart Lichen

Lepra amara

Least Concern

Blow Fly

Lucilia sericata

Least Concern

Pacific false buttonweed

Spermacoce exilis

Not Evaluated

Blue margined brown alga

Dictyota ciliolata

Not Evaluated

Browned Pixie-Cup Lichen

Cladonia cervicornis

Least Concern

Brown Hay Cap

Panaeolina foenisecii

Least Concern

Cyanobacterium

Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii

Not Evaluated

Brown spot needle blight

Lecanosticta acicola

Not Evaluated

Brown spot of soybean

Septoria glycines

Not Evaluated

Egg Flapwort

Solenostoma obovatum

Not Evaluated

Eastern Giant Swallowtail

Papilio cresphontes

Least Concern

River Jewelwing

Calopteryx aequabilis

Least Concern

Parasitoid wasp

Spalangia endius

Not Evaluated

Eleocharis Ergot

Claviceps nigricans

Least Concern

Fly

Spinilimosina brevicostata

Not Evaluated

Italy harp ground beetle

Amara anthobia

Near Threatened

ivy aphid

Aphis hederae

Not Evaluated

honey-flower

Melianthus major

Not Evaluated

Princely harp ground beetle

Amara aulica

Near Threatened

Little yellow ant

Plagiolepis alluaudi

Not Evaluated

Dung fly

Thoracochaeta brachystoma

Not Evaluated

Long lovegrass

Eragrostis elongata

Not Evaluated

Plant bug

Camptozygum aequale

Least Concern

Plant bug

Megalocoleus molliculus

Least Concern

Plant bug

Psallus haematodes

Least Concern

Plant bug

Psallus lepidus

Least Concern

Plant bug

Psallus variabilis

Least Concern

Plant bug

Europiella albipennis

Least Concern

Plant bug

Atractotomus kolenatii

Least Concern

Polychaete

Pileolaria militaris

Not Evaluated

Purpleglume flatsedge

Cyperus sanguinolentus

Least Concern

Redlegged ham beetle

Necrobia rufipes

Least Concern

Red sand scarab beetle

Rhysothorax rufus

Extinct

Ridge-saddled carpenter bee

Heriades truncorum

Least Concern

Roadside toadflax

Linaria aeruginea

Not Evaluated

Ridge beggartick

Bidens gardneri

Not Evaluated

Guelder-Rose Leaf Beetle

Pyrrhalta viburni

Least Concern

Yellow potato cyst nematode

Globodera rostochiensis

Not Evaluated

Red Wart Lichen

Pertusaria rubefacta

Not Evaluated

Eurasian Pine Shoot Beetle

Tomicus piniperda

Least Concern

Reindeer Lichen

Cladonia terrae-novae

Not Evaluated

Rimmed Shingle Lichen

Fuscopannaria leucosticta

Not Evaluated

Rimmed Wart Lichen

Varicellaria velata

Critically Endangered

Rock Bushy Lichen

Ramalina intermedia

Not Evaluated

Rove beetle

Xylodromus depressus

Vulnerable

Rove beetle

Boreophilia islandica

Least Concern

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