extinct insects

List of recently extinct insects

English or local nameScientific nameRangeLast seen
Levuana mothLevuana iridescensViti Levu1925
Madeiran large whitePieris brassicae wollastoniMadeira1977
Sloane’s uraniaUrania sloanusJamaica1894 or 1895
Xerces blueGlaucopsyche xercesSan Fransisco (USA)1941 or 1943
Dark palm mothHeteropan dolensFiji20th century
Poko noctuid mothAgrotis crinigeraMaui, Oahu (Hawaii)1926 ?
Midway noctuid mothAgrotis fasciataMidway Islands1912
Kerr’s noctuid mothAgrotis kerriHawaii1923
Miller mothAgrotis laysanensisLaysan (Hawaii)1911
Light-loving noctuid mothAgrotis photophilaOahu (Hawaii)1900
Procellaris grotis noctuid mothAgrotis procellarisLaysan (Hawaii)1900 ?
Robert’s stoneflyAlloperla robertiIllinois (USA)?
Chestnut ermine mothArgyresthia castaneellaNew Hampshire, Vermont1923
Koolau spur-winged long-legged flyEmperoptera mirabilisOahu (Hawaii)1907
Hawaiian mealybugClavicoccus erinaceusOahu (Hawaii)?
Chestnut casebearer moth Coleophora leucochrysellaIndiana, Pennsylvania, Virginia (USA)Rediscovered in 2020
Central valley grasshopperConozoa hyalinaCalifornia (USA)1953
Mbashe River buffDeloneura immaculataSouth Africa1863
(True weevil)Dryophthorus distinguendusHawaii1961 ?
American chestnut mothEctodemia castaneaeUSA?
Phleophagan chestnut mothEctodemia phleophagaVirginia (USA)?
Leahi pyralid mothGenophantis leahiMaui, Oahu, Molokai (Hawaii)20th century
Confused mothHelicoverpa confusaHawaii1927
Minute noctuid mothHelicoverpa minutaHawaii1911
Tobias‘ caddisflyHydropsyche tobiasiGermany1938
Mono Lake diving beetleHygrotus artusCalifornia (USA)1984
Hilo noctuid mothHypena newelliHawaii20th century ?
Lovegrass noctuid mothHypena plagiotaKauai, Oahu, Maui (Hawaii)?
Kaholuamano noctuid mothHypena seniculaKauai (Hawaii)?
Laysan dropseed noctuid mothHypena laysanensisLaysan (Hawaii)1911
Morant’s blueLepidochrysops hypopoliaSouth Africa1879
Mauritius libythid butterflyLibythea cinyrasMauritius1865
Stephens Island weevilMecodema punctellumStephens Island1931
Brazilian diving beetleMegadytes ducalisBrazilEnd of 19th century ?
Maui upland damselflyMegalagrion jugorumMaui, Lanai (Hawaii)1917
Antioch dunes shieldback katydidNeduba extinctaCalifornia (USA)1937 ?
(Moth)Oeobia sp. nov.USA?
Laysan weevilOodemas laysanensisLaysan (Hawaii)1986
Robust burrowing mayflyPentagenia robustaIndiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, Ohio (USA)1800
Oahu mealybugPhyllococcus oahuensisHawaii1913
New Caledonia diving beetleRhantus novacaledoniaeNew Caledonia?
South American diving beetle Rhantus orbignyiArgentina, Brazil?
New Guinea diving beetleRhantus papuanusPapua New Guinea?
Castle Lake caddisflyRhyacophila amabilisUSA?
Bryan’s weevilRhyncogonus bryaniUSA1911 ?
Kona giant looper mothScotorythra megalophyllaHawaiiEarly 20th century
Koolau giant looper mothScotorythra nesiotesOahu (Hawaii)20th century
Perrin’s cave beetleSiettitia balsetensisFrance1945
Volutine stoneyian tabanid flyStonemyia volutinaUSA?
St. Helena darterSympetrum dilatatumSaint Helena1963
Chestnut clearwing mothCoptotriche perplexaVirginia (USA)?
Athens caddisflyTriaenodes phalacrisOhio (USA)?
Fort Ross weevilTrigonoscuta rossiCalifornia (USA)?
Yorba Linda weevilTrigonoscuta yorbalindaeCalifornia (USA)?
Olaa peppered looper mothTritocleis microphyllaHawaii1890s
Three-tooth caddisflyTriaenodes tridonataUSA?
British large copperLycaena dispar disparEngland1864
Strohbeen’s parnassianParnassius clodius strohbeeniCalifornia (USA)1956
Atossa fritillarySpeyeria adiaste atossaCalifornia (USA)1960
Dutch alcon blueMaculinea alcon arenariaNetherlands1979
Stephens Island weevilMecodema punctellumStephens Island1931
Rocky Mountain locustMelanoplus spretusNorth America1902
Saint Helena earwigLabidura herculeanaSaint Helena1967
Oblivious tiger beetleCicindela latesignata obliviosaNorth America?
Pecatonica river mayflyAcanthametropus pecatonicaUSA?
Desroches cockroachMargatteoidea amoenaAmirantes1905
Ridley’s stick insectPseudobactricia ridleyiSingapore1904
(Ground beetle)Atelothrus transiensHawaii?
Oahu blackburnia ground beetle Blackburnia insignisHawaii?
Kauai disenochus ground beetleDisenochus micantipennisHawaii?
Wedge-winged metromenus ground beetleMetromenus cuneipennisHawaii?
Oceanic metromenus ground beetleMetromenus oceanicusHawaii?
Haleakala pseudobroscus ground beetlePseudobroscus lentusHawaii?
Wilder’s weevilDryotribus wilderiHawaii?
(True weevil)Rhyncogonus extraneusHawaii1941
(Fly)Campsicnemus hardyiHawaii1973
(Fly)Campsicnemus hawaiiensisHawaii1973
(Fly)Campsicnemus zimmermanniHawaii1973
(Plant bug)Engytatus phyllostegiaeHawaii1936
Lanai yellow-faced beeHylaeus angustulaHawaii1899 ?
Blackburn’s yellow-faced beeHylaeus blackburniHawaii1909
Erythrodeme yellow-faced beeHylaeus erythrodemasHawaii1903
Neighbouring yellow-faced beeHylaeus finitimusHawaii1899 ?
(Masked bee)Hylaeus homoeochromaHawaii1912 ?
Broad-headed yellow-faced beeHylaeus laticepsHawaii1894
Maui yellow-faced beeHylaeus mauiensisHawaii1899 ?
Black-haired yellow-faced beeHylaeus melanothrixHawaii1896
Changed yellow-face beeHylaeus mutatusHawaii1899 ?
(Masked bee)Hylaeus neglectaHawaii1902
Obvious yellow-faced beeHylaeus perspicuaHawaii1897
Radulan odynerus vespid waspOdynerus radulaHawaii1925
Ohe hedyleptan mothOmiodes asaphrombaHawaii1970s
Lord Howe Island cockroachPanesthia lataLord Howe IslandRediscovered in 2022
Hawaiian hopseed looper mothScotorhythra paratactisHawaii20th century
(Moth)Hyposmocoma neckerensisNecker Island, Nikumaroro?
Maui agrotis noctuid mothAgrotis cremataMaui (Hawaii)?
Black-veined agrotis noctuid mothAgrotis melanoneuraHawaii?
Microreas agrotis noctuid mothAgrotis microreasHawaii?
Kona agrotis noctuid mothAgrotis panopliasHawaii?
Red anomis noctuid mothAnomis vulpicolorOahu, Molokai (Hawaii)?
Cloaked beePharohylaeus lactiferusAustraliaRediscovered in 2020
Spined dwarf mantisAmeles fasciipennisItalia1871
(Weevil)Metapocyrtus (Orthocyrtus) bifoveatusNegros (Philippines)Rediscovered in 2023
Mante tuberculéePseudoyersinia brevipennisFrance1860
Small-winged stick mantisBurmorthacris subapteraMyanmarRediscovered in 2022
(Ground beetle)Calathus extensicollisAzores (Portugal)1859
(Ground beetle)Bradycellus chavesiAzores (Portugal)1919
(Ground beetle)Calathus vicenteorumAzores (Portugal)1957
(Chewing louse)Rallicola extinctusNew Zealand1907
Christmas Island fleaXenopsylla nesiotesChristmas Island, Australia1903
(Chewing louse)Psittacobrosus bechsteiniCuba, Isla de la Juventud1885
(Dung beetle)Epactoides giganteusRéunion19th century ?
Darwin’s rove beetleDarwinilus sedarisiArgentina20th century ?
Muir’s wedge-shaped beetleRhipidocyrtus muiriBorneo1907
Mary Kingsley’s longhorn beetlePseudictator kingsleyaeGhana1896
Wallace’s giant beeMegachile plutoMoluccas (Indonesia)Rediscovered in 2019
(Rhinoceros beetle)Semanopterus kingstoniLord Howe Island1979 ?
(CicadaOkanagana arctostaphylaeCalifornia (USA)Rediscovered in 2020
The lightning cockroachLucihormetica luckaeTungurahua (Ecuador)1939
(Cockroach)Balta crassivenosaSilhouette (Seychelles)1908
(Cockroach)Holocompsa pusillaMahé (Seychelles)1908
(Cockroach)Sliferia similisMahé, Silhouette (Seychelles)1908
(Cockroach)Theganopteryx griseaMahé (Seychelles)1909
(Cockroach)Theganopteryx liturataMahé (Seychelles)1908
(Cockroach)Theganopteryx scottiFélicité (Seychelles)1908
(Carabidae)Mecodema costellum (spelles)New Zealand (South Island)?
Pitt Island weevilThotmus halliPitt Island, Chatham Island (New Zealand)between 1906 and 1908
(Beetle)Waitomophylax worthyNew Zealand?
(Chewing louse)Rallicola pilgrimiNew Zealand?
(Chewing louse)Philopteroides xenicusNew Zealand?
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