Archilestes
grandis (Rambur, 1842) - Great Spreadwing
Odonata: Zygoptera: Lestidae
A Web Page by Roy J. Beckemeyer
Last Updated 4 February 2004
Photo right: Archilestes grandis male.
Photographed at a pool in an otherwise dry stream bed in Cimarron County,
Oklahoma, in October. Copulating pairs were also seen, and the species was
sharing the site with Aeshna umbrosa. Photo by Roy Beckemeyer.
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IMAGES: Scans
and Photos
by James Lasswell & Nathan McConal (Texas)
MAPS: Distribution by county in KS, OK, MO, NE
KEY
TO LARVAL Lestidae by Ethan Bright & Mark O'Brien, Univ.
Michigan Mus. Zoology
Recorded Distribution in KS, OK, MO, NE:
KANSAS:
Brown,
Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Doniphan, Douglas, Ellsworth, Marion,
Montgomery, Pottawatomie, Rawlins, Riley, Sedgwick, Stafford,
Woodson
MISSOURI: Carter,
Greene, Johnson, Oregon, St Louis, Taney
NEBRASKA: Dodge,
Franklin, Keith, Lancaster, Sioux
OKLAHOMA: Cimarron,
Cleveland, Comanche, Custer, Greer, Jefferson, Latimer, Love, Marshall, McClain,
Murray, Nowata, Oklahoma, Payne, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Stephens, Woods,
Woodward
NOTES:
SELECTED REFERENCES:
- Bick, G.H., & J.C. Bick, 1970, Oviposition in Archilestes
grandis (Rambur) (Odonata: Lestidae), Ent. News, 81:157-163
- Ingram, B.R., 1976, Life histories of three species of
Lestidae in North Carolina, United States (Zygoptera), Odonatologica,
5(3):231-244 [L. vigilax, L. disjunctus australis, Archilestes grandis]
- Moskowitz, D.P., & D.M. Bell, 1998, Archilestes
grandis (Great Spreadwing) in Central New Jersey, with notes on water
quality, Bull. Am. Odonatology, 5(3):49-54
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