Hetaerina americana

Hetaerina americana (Fabricius, 1798) - American Rubyspot

Odonata: Zygoptera: Calopterygidae

A Web Page by Roy J. Beckemeyer

Last Updated 8 October 2003

Right: Hetaerina americana pair in tandem. Male is opening wings to warn away other males. Digital picture taken by Roy Beckemeyer. Arkansas River at 21st St. N., Wichita, Kansas, July 2000.

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IMAGES: Scan of Live Male - Dorsal View / Scan of Live Male and Female - Lateral View / Photo of Larva

MAPS: Distribution by county in KS, OK, MO, NE

KEY TO LARVAL Hetaerina by Ethan Bright & Mark O'Brien, Univ. Michigan Mus. Zoology

Recorded Distribution in KS, OK, MO, NE:

KANSAS: Allen, Atchison, Barber, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Comanche, Cowley, Crawford, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas, Edwards, Elk, Ellis, Ellsworth, Finney, Ford, Franklin, Geary, Gove, Graham, Gray, Greenwood, Hamilton, Harvey, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Kearny, Kingman, Kiowa, Labette, Leavenworth, Linn, Logan, Lyon, Marion, Marshall, McPherson, Meade, Montgomery, Morris, Morton, Nemaha, Neosho, Ness, Osborne, Phillips, Pottawatomi, Pottawatomie, Pratt, Reno, Rice, Riley, Rooks, Russell, Saline, Scott, Sedgwick, Seward, Shawnee, Sheridan, Smith, Stafford, Sumner, Trego, Wallace, Wilson, Woodson

MISSOURI: Adair, Barry, Boone, Caldwell, Callaway, Camden, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Christian, Clark, Cole, Cooper, Crawford, Dallas, Davies, Dunklin, Franklin, Gasconade, Gentry, Greene, Grundy, Hickory, Holt, Howell, Jefferson, Johnson, Laclede, Lawrence, Lewis, Lincoln, Linn, Livingston, Madison, Marion, McDonald, Miller, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, New Madrid, Newton, Nodaway, Oregon, Ozark, Pemiscot, Perry, Pettis, Phelps, Platte, Polk, Pulaski, Ray, Reynolds, Shannon, Shelby, St Charles, St Clair, St Francois, St Louis, Ste Genevieve, Stone, Taney, Texas, Washington, Wayne, Webster, Wright

NEBRASKA: Blaine, Box Butte, Brown, Buffalo, Butler, Cass, Cherry, Custer, Dawes, Douglas, Dundy, Furnas, Hamilton, Holt, Keith, Keya Paha, Lancaster, Lincoln, Logan, Merrick, Otoe, Polk, Red Willow, Saunders, Sheridan, Sioux, Thomas

OKLAHOMA: Adair, Alfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Cherokee, Cimarron, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Custer, Delaware, Ellis, Garfield, Garvin, Grady, Harmon, Harper, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnston, Le Flore, Love, Major, Marshall, McClain, McCurtain, Murray, Muskogee, Oklahoma, Pontotoc, Rogers, Sequoyah, Stephens, Washita, Woods, Woodward

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SELECTED REFERENCES:

Bick, G.H., & D. Sulzbach, 1966, Reproductive behavior of the damselfly, Hetaerina americana (Fabricius) (Odonata: Calopterygidae), Anim. Behav., 14:156-158
Garrison, R.W., 1990, A synopsis of the genus Hetaerina with descriptions of four new species (Odonata: Calopterygidae), Trans. Am. ENt. Soc., 116(1):175-259
Grether, G.F., 1996, Sexual selection and survival selection on wing coloration and body size in the rubyspot damselfly Hetaerina americana, Evolution, 50(5):1939-1948
Grether, G.F., 1996, Intrasexual competition alone favors a sexually dimorphic ornament in the rubyspot damselfly Hetaerina americana, Evolution, 50(5):1949-1957
Grether, G.F., 1996, Intrasexual competition alone favors a sexually dimorphic ornament in the rubyspot damselfly Hetaerina americana, Evolution, 50(5):1949-1957
Johnson, C., 1961, Breeding behaviour and oviposition in Hetaerina americana (Fabricius) and H. titia (Drury) (Odonata: Agriidae), Can. Ent., XCIII:260-266
Johnson, C., 1962, A description of territorial behaviour and a quantitative study of its function in males of Hetaerina americana (Fabricius) (Odonata: Agriidae), Can. Ent., 94:178-190
Johnson, C., 1963, Interspecific territoriality im Hetaerina americana (Fabricius) and H. titia (Drury) (Odonata: Calopterygidae) with a preliminary analysis of wing color pattern variation, Can. Ent., 95:575-582
Johnson, C., 1973, Distributional patterns and their interpretation in Hetaerina (Odonata: Calopterygidae), Fl. Entomol., 56(1):24-42
Weichsel, J.I., 1985, Copulation between the damselflies Hetaerina americana (Fabricius) and Calopteryx maculata (Palisot de Beauvois) (Zygoptera: Calopterygidae), Odonatologica, 14(1):57-64 [include. color photo]