The Aquatic Invertebrates of Texas

Odonata

(Damselflies & Dragonflies)

GOMPHIDAE

Gomphus militaris Hagen

Sulphur-Tipped Clubtail


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Distribution Citations

1908 Tucker

[1910 Muttkowski]
1914 Williamson

[1929 Needham & Heywood]

1938 Ferguson

1951 Harwell
[1954 Needham & Westfall]

1974 RET Inc.
1975 Bayer
1975 Longley
1978 Donnelly
1978 Huggins
1979 Young & Bayer

 

1982 Williams

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

[2000 ACDT web]
2000 Dunkle
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>

-nymphs prefer lentic situations (Huggins 1978); in ponds, lakes, streams and creeks with muddy bottoms (Abbott 2005)

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

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