Lestes alacer Hagen, 1861 - Plateau Spreadwing
Odonata: Zygoptera: Lestidae
A Web Page by Roy J. Beckemeyer
Last Updated 16 January 2004
Right: Lestes alacer male abdominal terminalia - as
pictured in Philip Calvert's "Biologia Centrali Americana", 1901-1908
LINKS:
IMAGES: Photo
of male at Digital Dragonflies Web Site / Photo
of male by Greg Lasley
MAPS: Distribution by county in KS, OK, MO, NE
Recorded Distribution in KS, OK, MO, NE:
KANSAS: No
records
MISSOURI: No records
NEBRASKA: No
records
OKLAHOMA: Bryan, Cleveland, Coal, COmanche, Cotton,
Garvin, Grady, Kiowa, Marshall, McClain, Murray, Oklahoma, Stephens, Washita,
Woods, Woodward
NOTES:
A Mexican and southwestern US species that
reaches the eastern limits of its distribution in Texas (Johnson, 1972) and
Oklahoma, the northeastern limits in Oklahoma. Prefers "still, slow
moving waters" (Abbott, 1999).
SELECTED REFERENCES:
- Abbott, J.C., 1999, Biodiversity of dragonflies and
damselflies (Odonata) of the South-Central Nearctic and adjacent Neotropical
biotic provinces, Ph. D Dissertation, University of North Texas, xxxvi + 911
pp
- Hagen, H.A., 1861, Synopsis of the Neuroptera of North
America, with a list of South American species, Smithsonian Miscellaneous
Collections, 4:1-347
- Johnson, C., 1972, The damselflies (Zygoptera) of Texas,
Bulletin of the Florida State Museum of Biological Sciences, 16(2):55-128
- Westfall, M.J., Jr., & M.L. May, 1996, Damselflies
of North America, Scientific Publishers, 1996
Lestes alacer Hagen, 1861 - Plateau Spreadwing
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