The Aquatic Invertebrates of Texas

Odonata

(Damselflies & Dragonflies)

LIBELLULIDAE

Paltothemis lineatipes Karsch

Red Rock Skimmer


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Synonyms:  Plathemis lineatipes
                                           (Lind 1982)

Also Reported As:
              

 

Distribution Citations

[1910 Muttkowski]

[1929 Needham & Heywood

[1954 Needham & Westfall]
[1956 Smith]

1971 Kent in Bayer 1975
1975 Bayer
1978 Bane & Lind
1979 Young & Bayer

 

1982 Lind
1987 Meyerhoff & Lind

[1998 Abbott & Stewart]

[2000 ACDT web]
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 small sunlit rocky forst streams (Abbott 2005)

-The Guadalupe River record of Paltothemis lineatipes was based on a misidentification of  Brechmorphoga mendax (Bayer 1975)

copyright:   Stephen W. Ziser    
                          2010


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