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Libellula comanche, male specimen.2001 Annual Meeting of The Dragonfly Society of the Americas

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Last updated: 11 August 2001

Picture at right: A common southwestern libellulid, the Comanche Skimmer.  Image scanned from a live specimen captured during the 2001 DSA meeting in Texas.  Other scanned images of Kansas, New Mexico, and Texas Odonata, including some from specimens taken at this meeting,  may be found at: SCANALBUM Use your Browser's BACK button to return here.

John Abbott collecting along the Rio Hondo near Roswell, NM, at the DSA 2001 post-trip.
John Abbott of The University of Texas, Austin, host of the 2001 DSA meeting (held at Junction, TX, in the Hill Country, with post trips to Dolan Falls, TX and to the Roswell, NM area).   John did a great job, and provided wonderful meeting facilities, lots of odonates, and good dragonfly weather (sunshine and no rain).  Thanks, John!

 


Protoneura cara, a damselfly of the family Protoneuridae, a specialty of the areaRight: Protoneura cara, a damselfly collected at several places in the Hill Country at the DSA meeting.  A member of the family Protoneuridae.  For a picture of this species in flight click here: FLYING PROTONEURA CARA .  For a list of Odonata in my collection that I gathered on this trip, see:  dsa2001list .

Below: Left to right: Steve Krotzer, Tim Cashatt, George Harp and Mike May. Attendees gather in the morning outside the Comfort Inn at the 2001 DSA meeting in Junction, Texas.

 

Morning get-together at the motel in Junction, Texas, 2001 DSA meeting

Neoneura aaroni - pair captured in tandem

Left: Another south Texas protoneurid, Neoneura aaroni. This pair of specimens was captured ovipositing in tandem on the Guadalupe River. Specimens taken by Blair Nikula.

Below: Dave Nunalee (L) and Hal White (R) at the San Saba River at the Sol Mayer Boy Scout Camp near Junction, TX. July 2001.

David Nunalee (left) and Hal White (right) deciding where to go next.

 

 

 

 

 


The Mauffray's working the spring run at Fort McKavett S.P. TX

Left: The Mauffray clan working a spring run at Fort McKavett State Park, TX for Erpetogomphus designatus.

Erpetogomphus designatus hovering above dappled water

 

 


Right above: Erpetogomphus designatus in hovering flight.  Photo taken with Nikon Coolpix 990 digital camera by Roy Beckemeyer on the spring run at Fort McKavett S.P.


Below: "We caught it!" Left to right: Ryan Caesar, Karen Gaines,  George Harp and the two-net slinging Sid Dunkle cooperating in the capture of a giant (alien?) odonate outside the museum in ROSWELL, New Mexico.  

Ryan, Karen, George and Sid with an odonate right out of the "X-files". Roswell, NM DSA post trip.

 

 

Below: A comparison of two aeshnids collected at Sitting Bull Falls in the Lincoln NF, NM: Anax junius (L), and Anax walsinghami (R).

Anax junius and A. walsinghami

 

The lovely Argia cuprea, a striking coenagrionid damselfly seen on many of the south Texas streams

 

Left: Argia cuprea. A tandem pair photographed on the Rio Frio. The strikingly colored male is a real surprise for those of us who are more accustomed to the blue and black colors of most of the Argia we see.

 

 

Jerrell Daigle, DSA Treasurer, taking a snack break at the San Saba River, DSA 2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oliver Flint and Jeremiah Trimble talking shop in Junction, TX, July 2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Above left: Ollie Flint (L) (Smithsonian) and Jeremiah Trimble (R) (Harvard MCZ) in Junction, Texas.  Above right: Jerrell Daigle (Florida) having a lunch break at the San Saba River.


Ken Tennessen, Carl Cook and Clark Schiffer, DSA 2001

Left: Ken Tennessen, Carl Cook, and Clark Schiffer.  Carl is smiling, so they must be talking about Gomphids!

 

 

 


Natalia von Ellenreider, Rosser Garrisson, Hal White and Bill Mauffray, DSA 2001

Right: From left: Natalia von Ellenreider, Rosser Garrisson, Hal White and Bill Mauffray.

 

 

 

 

 

 


George and Phoebe Harp in Roswell, NM, DSA 2001 Post Trip

George and Phoebe Harp in front of the dragonfly sculpture, Roswell, NM Art Museum, July 2001.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Gomphus militaris in New Mexico

Right:  A male Gomphus militaris doing the obelisk maneuver at the edge of a pond in Bitter Lakes NWR.  He was almost standing on his head.

 

Libellula croceipennis at Dolan Creek, Texas

 

 

 

 

 

 

Left:  A male Libellula croceipennis perched in a shady side canyon near Dolan Creek at Dolan Falls, Texas.

 

 


Libellula comanche at Dolan Creek, Texas

Right: A male Libellula comanche perched in the sun near Dolan Creek.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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