Odonata

(Damselflies & Dragonflies)

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As Subspecies:
                    Erythrodiplax berenice berenice (Drury)
                                             (Abbott & Stewart 1998; Abbott, Stewart & Moulton 1997)

[1929 Needham & Heywood]

1951 Harwell
[1954 Needham & Westfall]

1979 Young & Bayer

1995 McCallister &
         McCallister
1997 Abbott Stewart Moulton
[1998 Abbott & Stewart]
1999 Orr Honig Behrstock

[2000 ACDT web]
2004 Gallucci
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>

-the only truly salt-water dragonfly in North America (Dunkle 1989)

-nymphs in salt marshes, mangrove swamps and saline lakes (Dunkle 1989); in saltmarshes, estuaries, bays and saline inland lakes (Abbott 2005)