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Illinois
County Distribution of Federally Threatened, Endangered and Candidate Species
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Information about Illlinois state-listed threatened and endangered species is on the Illinois Endangered Species Protection Board website.
Bald Eagle
Bald eagles are no longer protected under the federal Endangered Species Act and Section 7 consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is no longer necessary. However, the bald eagle remains protected under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act.
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Revised January 11, 2017
Species |
Status |
Range |
Habitat |
Mammals |
Gray bat
(Myotis grisescens) |
Endangered |
Alexander, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Monroe, Pike, Pope, Pulaski |
Caves and mines; rivers &
reservoirs adjacent to forests |
Indiana
bat
(Myotis sodalis) |
Endangered |
Potential Habitat Statewide; Known Occurrences In: Adams, Alexander*, Bond, Clinton, Ford, Hardin*, Henderson, Jackson*, Jersey*, Johnson, LaSalle**, Lawrence, Macoupin, Madison, McDonough, Monroe*, Perry, Pike, Pope*, Pulaski, Randolph, St. Clair, Saline*, Schuyler, Scott, Union*, Vermilion, Washington
*counties with hibernacula
** Blackball Mine: Designated Critical Habitat |
Caves, mines (hibernacula);
small stream corridors with well developed riparian woods; upland forests
(foraging) |
Northern long-eared bat
Myotis septentrionalis
Key to 4(d) Rule |
Threatened |
Statewide |
Hibernates in caves and mines - swarming in surrounding wooded areas in autumn. Roosts and forages in upland forests and woods. |
Birds |
Least Tern
(Sterna antillarum) |
Endangered |
Alexander, Jackson, Madison, Massac, Monroe, Pope, Randolph, St. Clair, Union, Wabash |
Bare alluvial and dredged spoil
islands |
Piping
Plover
(Charadrius melodus) |
Endangered |
Cook, Lake
Migration: Bond, Clinton, Fayette, Franklin, Jefferson, Moultrie, Shelby |
Lake
Michigan beaches |
Piping Plover
(Charadrius melodus) |
Critical
Habitat Designated |
Lake |
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Rufa Red knot
(Calidris canutus rufa) |
Threatened |
Cook, Lake
Only actions that occur along coastal areas or large wetland complexes during the red knot migratory window of May 1 - September 30 |
Coastal areas or large wetland complexes |
Reptile |
Eastern Massasauga
(Sistrurus catenatus) |
Threatened |
Clinton, Cook, Knox, Lake, Madison, Piatt, Will |
Graminoid dominated plant communities (fens, sedge meadows, peatlands, wet prairies, open woodlands, and shrublands) |
Fish |
Pallid Sturgeon
(Scaphirhynchus albus) |
Endangered |
Alexander, Jackson, Madison, Monroe, Randolph, St. Clair, Union |
Large rivers |
Mussels |
Clubshell
(Pleurobema clava) |
Endangered |
Vermillion |
Vermillion River (North Fork) |
Fanshell
mussel
(Cyprogenia stegaria)
(=C. irrorata) |
Endangered |
White |
Wabash River |
Fat pocketbook pearlymussel
(Potamilis capax) |
Endangered |
Gallatin, Hardin, Lawrence, Massac, Pope, Wabash, White |
Mississippi, Wabash, Little Wabash, Ohio Rivers
Saline, Middle Fork Saline, and North Fork Saline Rivers |
Higgins eye pearlymussel
(Lampsilis higginsi) |
Endangered |
Adams, Carroll, Hancock, Henderson, Jo Daviess, Mercer, Pike, Rock Island, Whiteside |
Mississippi River;
Rock River to Steel Dam |
Orangefoot
pimpleback
(Plethobasus cooperianus) |
Endangered |
Massac, Pulaski |
Ohio River below confluence with Cumberland River |
Pink Mucket
pearlymussel
(Lampsilis abrupta) |
Endangered |
Massac |
Ohio River |
Rabbitsfoot
(Quadrula cylindrica cylindrica) |
Threatened |
Alexander, Clark, Crawford, Jasper, Lawrence, Massac, Pulaski, Vermilion, Wabash, White |
Embarrass, North Fork Vermilion, Vermilion, Ohio, and Wabash Rivers |
Rabbitsfoot
(Quadrula cylindrica cylindrica) |
Critical Habitat |
Massac, Pulaski, and Vermilion |
Ohio River, North Fork Vermilion, Vermilion,
Maps of Critical Habitat |
Scaleshell
(Leptodea leptodon) |
Endangered |
Grundy |
Illinois River, Marseilles Pool |
Sheepnose mussel
(Plethobasus cyphyus) |
Endangered |
Alexander, Hancock, Kankakee, Massac, Pulaski, Rock Island, Whiteside, Will |
Shallow areas in larger rivers and streams |
Snuffbox
(Epioblasma triquetra) |
Endangered |
Coles, Cumberland, Douglas |
Small to medium-sized creeks in areas with a swift current and some larger rivers |
Spectaclecase mussel
(Cumberlandia monodonta) |
Endangered |
Hancock, Henderson, Madison, Massac, Pike, Rock Island |
Large rivers in areas sheltered from the main force of the current |
Snails |
Iowa pleistocene
snail
(Discus macclintocki) |
Endangered |
Jo Daviess |
North-facing algific talus slopes of the driftless area |
Insects |
Hine's emerald
dragonfly
(Somatochlora hineana) |
Endangered |
Cook, Dupage, Will (Des Plaines River drainage) |
Spring fed wetlands, wet meadows and marshes |
Hine's emerald
dragonfly
(Somatochlora hineana) |
Critical Habitat Designated |
Cook, DuPage, and Will
Go here for a map and written description of the areas designated as Critical Habitat (PDF) |
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Karner blue
butterfly
(Lycaeides melissa samuelis) |
Endangered |
Lake |
Pine barrens and oak savannas on sandy soils and containing wild
lupines (Lupinus perennis), the only known food plant of the larvae |
Rattlesnake-master borer moth
(Papaipema eryngii)
|
Candidate |
Cook, Effingham, Fayette, Grundy, Kankakee, Livingston, Marion, Will |
Undisturbed prairie and woodland openings that contain their only food plant, rattlesnake-master (Eryngium yuccifolium). |
Rusty patched bumble bee
Bombus affinis |
Endangered |
Champaign, Cook, DeWitt, DuPage, Jo Daviess, Kane, McHenry, Ogle, Peoria, Winnebago |
Grasslands with flowering plants from April through October, underground and abandoned rodent cavities or clumps of grasses above ground as nesting sites, and undisturbed soil for hibernating queens to overwinter. |
Crustacean |
Illinois
cave amphipod
(Gammarus acherondytes) |
Endangered |
Monroe, St. Clair |
Cave streams in Illinois sinkhole plain |
Plants |
Decurrent false aster
(Boltonia decurrens) |
Threatened |
Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass, Fulton, Greene, Jersey, LaSalle, Madison, Marshall, Mason, Morgan, Peoria, Pike, Putnam, St. Clair, Schuyler, Scott, Tazewell, Woodford |
Disturbed alluvial soils |
Eastern prairie
fringed orchid
(Platanthera leucophaea) |
Threatened |
Adams, Bond, Boone, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Caroll, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles, Cook, Crawford, Cumberland, Dekalb, DeWitt, Douglas, DuPage, Edgar, Effingham, Fayette, Ford, Fulton, Green, Grundy, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Iroquois, Jasper, Jersey, Jo Davies, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Knox, Lake, LaSalle, Lawrence, Lee, Livingston, Logan, Macon, Macoupin, Madison, Marion, Marshall, Mason, McDonough, McHenry, McLean, Menard, Mercer, Montgomery, Morgan, Moultrie, Ogle, Peoria, Piatt, Pike, Putnam, Richland, Rock Island, Saint Clair, Sangamon, Schutler, Scott, Shelby, Stark, Stephenson, Tazewell, Vermillion, Wabash, Warren Washington, Whiteside, Will, Winnebago, Woodford |
Mesic to wet prairies |
Lakeside daisy
(Hymenopsis herbacea) |
Threatened |
Tazewell, Will |
Dry rocky prairies |
Leafy prairie clover
(Dalea foliosa) |
Endangered |
Boone, Dupage, Kane, Kankakee, LaSalle, Madison,Ogle, Will, Winnebago |
Prairie remnants on thin soil over limestone |
Mead's
milkweed
(Asclepias meadii) |
Threatened |
Dupage, Henry, Saline, Vermillion, Will |
Virgin prairies |
Pitcher's
thistle
(Cirsium pitcheri) |
Threatened |
Lake |
Lakeshore dunes |
Prairie
bush clover
(Lespedeza leptostachya) |
Threatened |
Cass, Champaign, Cook, Dupage, Jo Daviess, Ogle, Lee, McHenry, Winnebago |
Dry to mesic prairies with gravelly soil |
Price's
potato bean
(Apios priceana) |
Threatened |
Extirpated |
Wet floodplain forests, shrubby swamps |
Small whorled pogonia
(Isotria medeoloides) |
Threatened |
Randolph |
Dry woodlands |
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