Odonata

(Damselflies & Dragonflies)

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Synonyms:  Libellula odiosa Hagen
                                          (Needham & Westfall 1954)

Also Reported As:
                   Libellula luctosa

1914 Williamson

1938 Ferguson

1951 Harwell
[1954 Needham & Westfall]

1974 RET Inc.
1975 Bayer
1975 Longley
1976 Brown & Rudy
1979 Young & Bayer

1982 Williams

1995? Lasswell et al.
1996 Jasper
[1997 Arnette]
1997 Abbott Stewart Moulton
1997 Lasswell & Mitchell
[1998 Abbott & Stewart]
1999 BFL
1999 Orr Honig Behrstock

[2000 ACDT web]
2000 Dunkle

2004 Gallucci
2005 Abbott
[2008 NatureServe]

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

-nymphs in still waters including marshy ponds, lakes and borrow pits (Abbott 2005); nymphs sprawling on mud or sediment in pools and backwaters, most abundant at sites with aboundant aquatic vegetation (Bayer 1975)