Odonata

(Damselflies & Dragonflies)

 Photogallery: 

Synonyms:  Gomphus maxwelli Ferguson
                                           (Donnelly 1962, 1978; Needham & Westfall 1954; Roback & Westfall 1967; Young & Bayer 1979)

[1954 Needham & Westfall]

1962 Donnelly
1967 Roback & Westfall

1978 Donnelly
1979 Young & Bayer

1996 Jasper
1997 Abbott Stewart Moulton
[1998 Abbott & Stewart]
1999 Orr Honig Behrstock

[2000 ACDT web]
2005 Abbott
[2008 NatureServe]

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

-nymphs occur in ditches, bayous and semipermanent lakes and ponds on muddy bottoms (Abbott 2005); nymphs in still or slow moving water (Orr, Honig & Behrstock 1999)

-in Needham & Westfall (1955) the nymphs of G. maxwelli and G. militaris have been transposed (Westfall 1974 pers. com. in Bayer 1975)