Odonata

(Damselflies & Dragonflies)

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Synonyms:  Agrion moestrum
                   Agrion putridum
                   Argia intruda
                   Argia moesta putrida (Hagen)
                                            (Muttkowski 1910)
                   Argia putida

1908 Tucker

[1910 Muttkowski]
1912 Williamson
1914 Williamson
[1929 Needham & Heywood]

1938 Ferguson

1951 Harwell
1955 Sublette

1967 Roback & Westfall

1978 Donnelly

1982 Lind
1982 Williams

1990 Dunkle
1994 Garrison
[1996 Westfall & May]
1997 Abbott Stewart Moulton
[1998 Abbott & Stewart]
1999 Orr Honig Behrstock

2004 Gallucci
2005 Abbott
2006b USGSNPwRC
[2008 NatureServe]
2008 Peabody Mus. Nat.
         Hist.

notes:
<this species has been vetted and accepted as a valid Texas species>

-common and widely distributed in the U. S. (Garrison 1994)

-nymphs in swift currents of rivers and lakes with emergent stones and rocky shores (Abbott 2005); usually in rivers, sometimes in streams (Dunkle 1991)