The Aquatic Invertebrates of Texas

Odonata

(Damselflies & Dragonflies)

COENAGRIONIDAE

Enallagma vesperum Calvert

Vesper Bluet


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Synonyms:  Enallagma laurenti Calvert
                                           (Ferguson 1938)

 

 

Distribution Citations

1951 Harwell

1967 Roback & Westfall

1978 Donnelly
[1978 Huggins]

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

 

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 Harwell (1951)

-nymphs from heavily vegetated ponds and lakes, and occasionally slow reachs of streams (Abbott 2005); in lakes including sandy bottomed lakes and sometimes in ponds or slow streams (Dunkle 1990)

 

copyright:   Stephen W. Ziser    
                          2010


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