ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT PROFILE

PROTECTION STATUS: Endangered

PETITIONED: Candidate list 1984, removed 1996, added it again 2006

YEAR LISTED: 2014

CRITICAL HABITAT: 11,539 acres designated in 2014

RECOVERY PLAN: None

RANGE: South Florida's Miami-Dade and Monroe counties

THREATS: Development, climate change, sea-level rise, nonnative species, insecticides, butterfly collecting

POPULATION TREND: This species is in decline.

 

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