Hoover’s Cryptantha (Cryptantha hooveri)
Hoover’s Cryptantha was an annual, 5 to 20 cm tall plantlet with simple or branched stems and linear leaves that inhabited grassland communities on sandy soil.
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Hoover’s Cryptantha was last recorded in 1939 and may be extinct, however, the species is said to be hard to identify, so there’s some hope that it may still exist but may just have been overlooked so far.
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edited: 05.12.2018
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Cicindela hirticollis ssp. abrupta Casey
Sacramento Valley Hairy-necked Tiger Beetle (Cicindela hirticollis ssp. abrupta)
The Sacramento Valley Hairy-necked Tiger Beetle was described in 1913, it was last recorded in 1984 and is considered extinct, mainly based on extensive statut surveys of all historically known sites and all apparently suitable habitat.
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Photo from: ‘Victor E. Shelford: Animal Communities in temperate America as illustrated in the Chigaco region; a study in animal ecology. The Geographic Society of Chicago Bulletin 5: 1-362. 1913’
(public domain)
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edited: 07.05.2019