ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT PROFILE

PROTECTION STATUS: Not listed; candidate species

PETITIONED: 2000 (North American Butterfly Association)

YEAR PLACED ON LIST: Candidate 2005

CRITICAL HABITAT: None

RECOVERY PLAN: None

RANGE: Scattered individuals in Florida’s Key West National Wildlife Refuge

THREATS: Habitat loss and fragmentation due to urban development, nonnative plant invasion, mosquito control measures, public-land vegetation management (particularly for fire suppression purposes), and the potential for unethical butterfly collection

POPULATION TREND: Once common throughout southern Florida, the Miami blue is now limited to only one wild population, estimated at 34 adults in 2012.