Odonata

(Damselflies & Dragonflies)

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Synonyms:  Celithemis monomelaena Williamson
                                           (Ferguson 1938)

1938 Ferguson

1951 Harwell
[1954 Needham & Westfall]

1978 Donnelly

[1989 Dunkle]

1995? Lasswell et al.
1997 Abbott Stewart Moulton
[1997 Arnett]
1997 Lasswell & Mitchell
[1998 Abbott & Stewart]
1999 Orr Honig Behrstock

[2000 ACDT web]
2004 Gallucci
2005 Abbott
[2008 NatureServe]

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

-First Texas Record reported by Ferguson (1938)

-nymphs found in permanent lakes, ponds, and borrow pits with emergent vegetation (Abbott 2005); in ponds, lakes, especially new borrow pits and clear water sand bottomed lakes (Dunkle 1989); nymphs common in silt and trash (Ferguson 1938)