The Aquatic Invertebrates of Texas

Odonata

(Damselflies & Dragonflies)

GOMPHIDAE

Hagenius brevistylus Selys

Dragonhunter or The Black Dragon


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Synonyms: 

 

 

 

Distribution Citations

[1910 Mittkowski]

[1929 Needham & Heywood]

1938 Ferguson

1951 Harwell
[1954 Needham & Westfall]

1975 Bayer
1975 Cox
1975 Longley
1978 Donnelly
1979 Morris
1979 Young & Bayer

1980 Commander
1982 Louton
1982 McCullough &
         McCullough
1982 Short
1985 Guthrie
[1989 Dunkle]

 

1992 Bayer et al.
1992 Miles
1996 Jasper
1997 Abbott Stewart Moulton
1997 Croyle
[1998 Abbott & Stewart]
1998 Moring Rosendale
         Ansley Brown
1999 Orr Honig Behrstock

[2000 ACDT web]
2003 Moring
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 in undercut banks of streams, rivers or creeks with moderate to fast flow current  (Abbott 2005)

-the only North American non-burrowing gomphid (Louton 1982)

copyright:   Stephen W. Ziser    
                          2010


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