Lestes disjunctus australis Selys, 1862 - Common Spreadwing
Odonata: Zygoptera: Lestidae
A Web Page by Roy J. Beckemeyer
Last Updated 16 January 2004
Right: Photo by Roy Beckemeyer of tandem pair of Lestes
disjunctus australis ovipositing.
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IMAGES: Comparisons
of male specimens of L. congener, L. dryas, L. disjunctus disjunctus, and
L. unguiculatus by Dennis Paulson /
MAPS: Distribution by county in KS, OK, MO, NE
Recorded Distribution in KS, OK, MO, NE:
KANSAS: Atchison,
Brown, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Clay, Douglas, Ellsworth, Harvey, Leavenworth, Lyon,
McPherson, Montgomery, Neosho, Russell, Saline, Sumner, Thomas, Woodson
MISSOURI: Andrew, Audrain, Bates, Boone, Cape
Girardeau, Carter, Christian, Dent Franklin, Gentry, Holt, Howell, Jefferson,
Johnson, Lawrence, Lewis, Lincoln, Macon, Mercer, Polk, Randolph, Reynolds,
Ripley, Schuyler, Shannon, St. Louis, Sullivan
NEBRASKA: Brown, Cherry, Douglas, Gage, Lancaster, Lincoln,
Red WIllow, Sioux
OKLAHOMA: Beaver, Beckham, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian,
Carter, Cimarron, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Craig, Delaware, Ellis, Garvin,
Grady, Grant, Haskell, Hughes, Jefferson, Kay, Kiowa, Latimer, Lincoln, Logan,
Love, Marshall, McClain, McCurtain, Muskogee, Oklahoma, Ottawa, Pittsburg,
Pontotoc, Pushmataha, Sequoyah, Stephens, Washita, Woods, Woodward
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SELECTED REFERENCES:
- Bick, G.H., & J.C. Bick, 1961, An adult population
of Lestes disjunctus australis Walker (Odoanta: Lestidae), Southwest.
Nat., 6(3-4):111-137
- Eriksen, C.H., 1984, The physiological ecology of larval
Lestes disjunctus Selys (Zygoptera: Odonata), Freshwater Invert.
Biol., 3(3):105-
- Eriksen, C.H., 1986, Respiratory roles of caudal
lamellae (gills) in a lestid damselfly (Odonata: Zygoptera), J. N. Am.
Benthol. Soc., 5(1):16-27 [Lestes disjunctus]
- 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]
- Krishnaraj, R. & G. Pritchard, 1995, The influence
of larval size, temperature, and components of the functional response to
prey density on growth rates of the dragonflies Lestes disjunctus and
Coenagrion resolutum (Insecta: Odonata), Canadian Journal of Zoology,
73:1672-1680
- Walker, E.M., 1952, The Lestes disjunctus and forcipatus
complex (Odonata: Lestidae), Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., LXXVIII:59-74
- Westfall, M.J., Jr., & M.L. May, 1996, Damselflies
of North America, Scientific Publishers, 1996
Lestes disjunctus australis Selys, 1862 - Common Spreadwing
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