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Clubtails, Family Gomphidae Genus Aphylla? - Needs ID 31 July 2016 Cookâs Slough Sanctuary & Nature Park Uvalde, Uvalde County, Texas This dragonfly (which we are assuming is a male) may or not be in the Genus Aphylla but the shape of its forcept-like tail appendages leads us to hazard the guess. Got all of three pics from this one before it flew off and never got really going on photographing it such that we could include close ups and lateral views, etc. This is the only perspective we managed to catch. Not much, but for the practiced eye perhaps a treasure trove of information. At least this is our hope. Might it be a Broad-striped Forceptail (Aphylla angustifolia)? Or perhaps we have this ID going in an entirely incorrect direction? Granted, it may be an observation that will have to remain at the family or genus level. Many thanks to all who take a look at this observation and try to solve its missing ID. We referenced John C. Abbott's, Dragonflies of Texas: A Field Guide (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015), for this observation.
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male with prey item Yett Creek Park, off Parmer Lane, Austin, Travis Co., Texas 9 September 2016
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male with prey item Yett Creek Park, off Parmer Lane, Austin, Travis Co., Texas 9 September 2016
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"Russet-tipped Clubtail (Stylurus plagiatus) 1 August 2016 Fort Clark Springs Brackettville, Kinney County, Texas We're fairly sure that this is the correct ID for Russet-tipped Clubtail. We'd never photographed it before in the field if confirmed, experience counts. As the Mexican saying goes: ""Más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo."" A second, third and so forth meeting with this clubtail and it will be readily recognized. It was a few feet into the water perched on a dead tree limb sticking out of the water at the spring-fed pool found at Fort Clark Springs. We couldn't get closer to take the side shot, or lateral view, before it was gone. Odonata Central reports its range as being from the ""eastern and southwestern U.S. to Nuevo León, Mexico."" Russet-tipped Clubtail is an authentic resident of the Western Hemisphere. Source: ""Russet-tipped Clubtail,"" Odonata Central, range map, photographs, description, accessed 9.11.16, http://www.odonatacentral.org/index.php/FieldGuideAction.get/id/46759"
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"Russet-tipped Clubtail (Stylurus plagiatus) 1 August 2016 Fort Clark Springs Brackettville, Kinney County, Texas We're fairly sure that this is the correct ID for Russet-tipped Clubtail. We'd never photographed it before in the field if confirmed, experience counts. As the Mexican saying goes: ""Más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo."" A second, third and so forth meeting with this clubtail and it will be readily recognized. It was a few feet into the water perched on a dead tree limb sticking out of the water at the spring-fed pool found at Fort Clark Springs. We couldn't get closer to take the side shot, or lateral view, before it was gone. Odonata Central reports its range as being from the ""eastern and southwestern U.S. to Nuevo León, Mexico."" Russet-tipped Clubtail is an authentic resident of the Western Hemisphere. Source: ""Russet-tipped Clubtail,"" Odonata Central, range map, photographs, description, accessed 9.11.16, http://www.odonatacentral.org/index.php/FieldGuideAction.get/id/46759"
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"Russet-tipped Clubtail (Stylurus plagiatus) 1 August 2016 Fort Clark Springs Brackettville, Kinney County, Texas We're fairly sure that this is the correct ID for Russet-tipped Clubtail. We'd never photographed it before in the field if confirmed, experience counts. As the Mexican saying goes: ""Más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo."" A second, third and so forth meeting with this clubtail and it will be readily recognized. It was a few feet into the water perched on a dead tree limb sticking out of the water at the spring-fed pool found at Fort Clark Springs. We couldn't get closer to take the side shot, or lateral view, before it was gone. Odonata Central reports its range as being from the ""eastern and southwestern U.S. to Nuevo León, Mexico."" Russet-tipped Clubtail is an authentic resident of the Western Hemisphere. Source: ""Russet-tipped Clubtail,"" Odonata Central, range map, photographs, description, accessed 9.11.16, http://www.odonatacentral.org/index.php/FieldGuideAction.get/id/46759"
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"Russet-tipped Clubtail (Stylurus plagiatus) 1 August 2016 Fort Clark Springs Brackettville, Kinney County, Texas We're fairly sure that this is the correct ID for Russet-tipped Clubtail. We'd never photographed it before in the field if confirmed, experience counts. As the Mexican saying goes: ""Más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo."" A second, third and so forth meeting with this clubtail and it will be readily recognized. It was a few feet into the water perched on a dead tree limb sticking out of the water at the spring-fed pool found at Fort Clark Springs. We couldn't get closer to take the side shot, or lateral view, before it was gone. Odonata Central reports its range as being from the ""eastern and southwestern U.S. to Nuevo León, Mexico."" Russet-tipped Clubtail is an authentic resident of the Western Hemisphere. Source: ""Russet-tipped Clubtail,"" Odonata Central, range map, photographs, description, accessed 9.11.16, http://www.odonatacentral.org/index.php/FieldGuideAction.get/id/46759"
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"Russet-tipped Clubtail (Stylurus plagiatus) 1 August 2016 Fort Clark Springs Brackettville, Kinney County, Texas We're fairly sure that this is the correct ID for Russet-tipped Clubtail. We'd never photographed it before in the field if confirmed, experience counts. As the Mexican saying goes: ""Más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo."" A second, third and so forth meeting with this clubtail and it will be readily recognized. It was a few feet into the water perched on a dead tree limb sticking out of the water at the spring-fed pool found at Fort Clark Springs. We couldn't get closer to take the side shot, or lateral view, before it was gone. Odonata Central reports its range as being from the ""eastern and southwestern U.S. to Nuevo León, Mexico."" Russet-tipped Clubtail is an authentic resident of the Western Hemisphere. Source: ""Russet-tipped Clubtail,"" Odonata Central, range map, photographs, description, accessed 9.11.16, http://www.odonatacentral.org/index.php/FieldGuideAction.get/id/46759"
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"Russet-tipped Clubtail (Stylurus plagiatus) 1 August 2016 Fort Clark Springs Brackettville, Kinney County, Texas We're fairly sure that this is the correct ID for Russet-tipped Clubtail. We'd never photographed it before in the field if confirmed, experience counts. As the Mexican saying goes: ""Más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo."" A second, third and so forth meeting with this clubtail and it will be readily recognized. It was a few feet into the water perched on a dead tree limb sticking out of the water at the spring-fed pool found at Fort Clark Springs. We couldn't get closer to take the side shot, or lateral view, before it was gone. Odonata Central reports its range as being from the ""eastern and southwestern U.S. to Nuevo León, Mexico."" Russet-tipped Clubtail is an authentic resident of the Western Hemisphere. Source: ""Russet-tipped Clubtail,"" Odonata Central, range map, photographs, description, accessed 9.11.16, http://www.odonatacentral.org/index.php/FieldGuideAction.get/id/46759"
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Broad-striped Forceptail Aphylla angustifolia male Hornsby Bend, Austin, Travis Co., Texas 17 August 2011 Images 2 and 3 with a prey item, a wasp
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Broad-striped Forceptail Aphylla angustifolia male Hornsby Bend, Austin, Travis Co., Texas 17 August 2011 Images 2 and 3 with a prey item, a wasp
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Broad-striped Forceptail Aphylla angustifolia male - with deformed abdomen likely an emergence problem. Southeast Metro Park, Travis Co., Texas 12 August 2010 another you might find of interest @briang
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Broad-striped Forceptail Aphylla angustifolia male - with deformed abdomen likely an emergence problem. Southeast Metro Park, Travis Co., Texas 12 August 2010 another you might find of interest @briang
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Broad-striped Forceptail Aphylla angustifolia female Hornsby Bend, Austin, Travis Co., Texas 2 July 2014
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Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Entomology
NMNH Entomology
Odonata type specimen, Barcode 00391503