The Aquatic Invertebrates of Texas

Odonata

(Damselflies & Dragonflies)

LIBELLULIDAE

Sympetrum corruptum (Hagen)

Variegated Meadowhawk


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Synonyms:  Tarnetrum corruptum (Hagen)
                                           (Merickel & Wangberg 1981; Needham & Westfall 1954)

 

 

 
Distribution Citations

[1910 Muttkowski]
1914 Williamson

[1929 Needham & Heywood]

1938 Ferguson

1951 Harwell
[1954 Needham & Westfall]

1975 Bayer
1975 Longley z
1978 Donnelly
1979 Young & Bayer

1981 Merickel & Wangberg
1982 Williams

1992 Bayer 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
[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, slow streams with sand or cobble, occasionally in brackish water (Abbott 2005); in still water and slow steams of nearly all kinds, also in temporary brackish ponds, prefers sand bottomed ponds in barren surroundings (Dunkle 1989)

copyright:   Stephen W. Ziser    
                          2010

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