The Aquatic Invertebrates of Texas

Odonata

(Damselflies & Dragonflies)

LIBELLULIDAE

Perithemis tenera (Say)

Eastern Amberwing


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Synonyms:  Perithemis domitia tenera (Say)
                                           (Muttkowski 1910)

 

 

 

Distribution Citations

[1910 Muttkowski]
1914 Williamson

1951 Harwell
[1954 Needham & Westfall]

1975 Bayer
1975 Longley
1978 Donnelly
[1978 Huggins]
1979 Young & Bayer

1982 Williams

 

1995? Lasswell et al.
1996 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
2007 Paulson
[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 nearly any still water; ponds, lakes, ditches, slow parts of streams and rivers (Dunkle 1989); in open sloughs, ponds, pools, ditches and other still waters (Abbott 2005); in heavily vegetated lentic habitats (Bayer 1975)

copyright:   Stephen W. Ziser    
                          2010


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