The Aquatic Invertebrates of Texas

Odonata

(Damselflies & Dragonflies)

LIBELLULIDAE

Sympetrum ambiguum (Rambur)

Blue-Faced Meadowhawk


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Distribution Citations

[1910 Muttkowski]

[1929 Needham & Heywood]

1951 Harwell

1978 Donnelly
[1978 Hugins]

 

1982 Williams
[1989 Dunkle]

1997 Abbott Stewart Moulton
1997 Lasswell & Mitchell
[1998 Abbott & Stewart]
1999 Orr Honig Behrstock

[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 partially shaded ponds, pools, marshes, swamps and sloughs (Abbott 2005); in overflow pools in river bottom lands, marshes and temporary semishaded ponds and pools (Dunkle 1989)