Calopteryx
aequabilis Say 1839 - River Jewelwing
Odonata: Zygoptera: Calopterygidae
A Web Page by Roy J. Beckemeyer
Last Updated 17 January 2002
Right: Calopteryx aequabilis female.
Scanned from slide taken by Roy Beckemeyer. Boardman Creek, Cherry Co.
Nebraska, August 1998, Dragonfly Society of the Americas Annual Meeting.
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IMAGES: Scan
of Live Male by Dennis Paulson (WA) / Scan
of Live Female by Dennis Paulson (WA) / Photo
of Male by Blair Nikula (MA) / Photo
of Female by Blair Nikula (MA)
MAPS: Distribution by county in KS, OK, MO, NE
KEY: TO LARVAE
BY ETHAN BRIGHT & Mark O'Brien (U. of Michigan Museum of Zoology)
Recorded Distribution in KS, OK, MO, NE:
KANSAS: No
Record
MISSOURI: No
Record
NEBRASKA: Box
Butte, Brown, Cherry, Dawes, Lincoln, Logan, Sioux
OKLAHOMA: No
Record
NOTES:
SELECTED REFERENCES:
- Conrad, K.F., & T.B. Herman, Territorial and
reproductive behaviour of Calopteryx aequabilis Say (Odonata:
Calopterygidae) in Nova Scotia, Canada, Adv. Odonatol., 3:41-50
- Henderson, J.B., & T.B. Herman, 1984, Movement
patterns and behavior of Calopteryc aequabilis Say (Zygoptera:
Coenagrionidae), Adv. Odonatol., 2:45-55
- Kennedy, C.H., 1918, The varieties of the dragonfly, Agrion
aequabilis (Say), Can. Ent., L:406-411
- Martin, R.D.C., 1939, Life histories of Agrion
aequabile and Agrion maculatum, Ann. Ent. Soc. Am., XXXII:601-619
- Waage, J.K., 1975, Reproductive isolation and the
potential for character displacement in the damselflies, Calopteryx
maculata and C. aequabilis (Odonata: Calopterygidae), Systematic
Zoology, 24:24-36
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