Odonata

(dragonflies & damselflies)

Species reported
          from Texas:

Libellula auripennis

Libellula axilena

Libellula comanche

Libellula composita

Libellula croceipennis

Libellula cyanea

Libellula deplanata

Libellula flavida

Libellula forensis

Libellula incesta

Libellula luctuosa

Libellula lydia

Libellula needhami

Libellula pulchella

Libellula quadrimaculata

Libellula satura

Libellula semifasciata

Libellula subornata

Libellula vibrans

1938 Ferguson

1973 Mecom
1976 Jackson & Morris
1977 Kost
1978 Bane & Lind
1978 Beaty
1978 Darville

1980 Darville & Harrel
1982 Lind
1982 McCullough &  
         McCullough
1982 Richardson
1983 Barclay
1984 Cusak
1985 Barclay & Harrel
1985 Harrel ecos
1986 McCullough
1989 Ziser

1992 Miles
1995? Lasswell et al
1996 Jasper
1996 Wolf
1997 Croyle
1999 Levine
1999 Wolf et al

[2000 Abbott]
2000 Halloran
2002 Celik
2006 Garrison vonEllenrieder
         Louton

notes:

*27 New World species (Garrison vonEllenrieder & Louton 2006) with 22 species in North America although some place a few of the species in different genera (Dunkle 1989)

*a "clean water indicator" genus (Cusak 1984)

*the dominant genus of dragonfly at many lentic habitats (Dunkle 1989)