The Aquatic Invertebrates of Texas

Odonata

(Damselflies & Dragonflies)

LIBELLULIDAE

Pachydiplax longipennis (Burmeister)

Blue Dasher


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Synonyms: 

 

 

 

Distribution Citations

1914 Williamson

1934 Tinkham
1938 Ferguson

1951 Harwell
[1954 Needham & Westfall]

1974 RET Inc.
1975 Bayer
1975 Longley
1976 Browning & Rudy
1978 Donnelly
1978 Huggins
1979 Young & Bayer

1982 Williams
1983 Barclay
1985 Barclay & Harrel

 

1995? Lasswell et al.
1997 Jasper
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]
2008 Peabody Mus. Nat.
         Hist.

[ ] indicate state record, no specific county or locality indicated

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

-nymphs in ponds, lakes, marshes, ditches, slow streams, quiet waters (Dunkle 1989; Abbott 2005); nymphs sprawling or climbing in vegetation in quiet waters (Ferguson 1938); associated with mud substrates and large amounts of vegetation (Bayer 1975)

copyright:   Stephen W. Ziser    
                          2010


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