The Aquatic Invertebrates of Texas

Odonata

(Damselflies & Dragonflies)

LIBELLULIDAE

Didymops transversa (Say)

Stream Cruiser


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Distribution Citations

1938 Ferguson

1951 Harwell
[1954 Needham & Westfall]

1967 Roback & Westfall

1975 Bayer
1978 Donnelly
1979 Young & Bayer

1982 Louton
1982 Williams
[1989 Dunkle]

 

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

[2000 ACDT web]
2005 Abbott
[2008 NatureServe]

[ ] indicate state record, no specific county or locality indicated

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

-First Texas Record reported by Ferguson (1938)

-nymphs in pools with large amounts of organic debris (Bayer 1975); nymphs in streams and rivers (Orr, Honig & Behrstock 1979); medium to large streams and rivers (Abbott 2005); in streams & rivers, rarely lakes (Dunkle 1989)

copyright:   Stephen W. Ziser    
                          2010

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