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Common Name Scientific Name <br />Fed/ <br />State/ <br />CNPS <br />Other <br />Status Habitat Micro Habitat Potential <br />to Occur <br />Justification for <br />Determination <br />San Joaquin, Madera, Merced <br />and Fresno Counties. <br />within 0.5 miles of Impact <br />Areas. <br />Sacramento <br />Valley tiger <br />beetle <br />Cicindela <br />hirticollis abrupta -/- Sand shore <br />Sandy floodplain habitat in the <br />Sacramento Valley. No beetles <br />located during intensive 2001- <br />2004 surveys. Requires fine to <br />medium sand, terraced <br />floodplains or low sandy water <br />edge flats. <br />None <br />Thought to be extirpated. <br />No suitable habitat could <br />be present within the <br />Study Area, and nearest <br />occurrence is within 5 <br />miles of the northern <br />edge of the Study Area. <br />San Joaquin <br />dune beetle Coelus gracilis -/- <br />BLM_S- <br />Sensitive | <br />IUCN_VU- <br />Vulnerable <br />Interior dunes <br />Inhabits fossil dunes along the <br />western edge of San Joaquin <br />Valley; extirpated from Antioch <br />Dunes (type locality) and is <br />limited in current distribution of <br />the western edge of the San <br />Joaquin Valley. Inhabits sites <br />containing sandy substrates. <br />None <br />The Study Area is outside <br />to the known range of <br />the species and there is <br />no suitable habitat on <br />site. <br />valley <br />elderberry <br />longhorn beetle <br />Desmocerus <br />californicus <br />dimorphus <br />FT/- Riparian scrub <br />Occurs only in the Central Valley <br />of California, in association with <br />blue elderberry (Sambucus <br />mexicana). Prefers to lay eggs in <br />elderberries 2-8 inches in <br />diameter; some preference <br />shown for "stressed" <br />elderberries. <br />High <br />Suitable elderberry <br />bushes may be present <br />within the Study Area, <br />and several reported <br />occurrences are within 2 <br />miles of the Study Area. <br />Antioch <br />efferian <br />robberfly <br />Efferia antiochi -/- Interior dunes <br />Known only from Antioch, <br />Fresno and Scout Island in the <br />San Joaquin River. <br />None <br />The Study Area is outside <br />of the known range of <br />this species. <br />Delta green <br />ground beetle Elaphrus viridis FT/- <br />IUCN_CR- <br />Critically <br />Endangered <br />Vernal pool | Wetland <br />Restricted to the margins of <br />vernal pools in the grassland <br />area between Jepson Prairie and <br />Travis AFB. Prefers the sandy <br />mud substrate where it slopes <br />gently into the water, with low- <br />growing vegetation, 25-100% <br />cover. <br />None <br />The Study Area is outside <br />of the known range of <br />this species. <br />redheaded <br />sphecid wasp <br />Eucerceris <br />ruficeps -/- Interior dunes <br />Central California interior dunes. <br />Nest in hard-packed sand <br />utilizing abandoned halictine <br />bee burrows. <br />None <br />While there are two <br />reported occurrences <br />from the 1950's, <br />presumed extirpated, in