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The Damselflies II
Many thanks to Dr. John Abbott, Bob Behrstock and Greg Lasley for their help with  the identifications on the Odonate pages.

Double-striped Bluet, Enallagma basidens
This species was photographed in September 2003; photos not yet posted (tg). Information on occurrence of this species also based on John C. Abbott's (2000) range maps in Odonata Central. (also reported from Kendall, (Abbott)).

Familiar Bluet, Enallagma civile
Information on occurrence of this species also based on John C. Abbott's (2000) range maps in Odonata Central. (tg observed in Kendall County, 3 October 2003).

Familiar Bluet, Enallagma civile
Camp Rio Vista Crossing, Guadalupe River, 10 September 2002
photos © by tony gallucci


Familiar Bluet, Enallagma civile
Camp Rio Vista, 8 October 2002
photos © by tony gallucci


Familiar Bluet, Enallagma civile
Dowdy Massacre marker, Texas 27 Rest Area, Mountain Home, 20 October 2002
photos © by tony gallucci


Familiar Bluet, Enallagma civile
Dowdy Massacre marker, Texas 27 Rest Area, Mountain Home, 21 October 2002
photos © by tony gallucci


Familiar Bluet, Enallagma civile
Dowdy Massacre marker, Texas 27 Rest Area, Mountain Home, 24 October 2002
photos © by tony gallucci


Familiar Bluet, Enallagma civile
Heart of the Hills Fisheries Research Station, Texas 27, Mountain Home, 5 November 2002
photos © by tony gallucci

Familiar Bluet, Enallagma civile
Sunset Cemetery, 9 April 2003
photos © by tony gallucci

Familiar Bluet, Enallagma civile
Rio Vista Crossing, 16 April 2003
photos © by tony gallucci

Familiar Bluet, Enallagma civile
Rio Vista Crossing, 3 May 2003
photos © by tony gallucci

Familiar Bluet, Enallagma civile
Rio Vista Crossing, 10 May 2003
photos © by tony gallucci

Familiar Bluet, Enallagma civile
Heart of the Hills Fisheries Research Station, 28 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci

Familiar Bluet, Enallagma civile
Rio Vista Crossing, Camp Rio Vista, Guadalupe River, 22 September 2003
photos © by tony gallucci


Stream Bluet, Enallagma exsulans
Information on occurrence of this species in Kerr County is entirely based on John C. Abbott's (2000) range maps in Odonata Central at this time. Further data on specimens or photographs will be posted here as it becomes available. (also reported from Kendall, (Abbott)).

Arroyo Bluet, Enallagma praevarum
A seriesof  these bluets was photographed from the North Fork of the Guadalupe River on 5 October 2003 (photos not yet posted,  tg). John Abbott has recently added this species to his database for Kerr County.

Neotropical Bluet, Enallagma novaehispaniae
Found at Camp Rio Vista, 27 September 2003 (tg). Also recently added to John Abbott's database (pers. comm., 2003). (also reported from Kendall, (Abbott)).

Orange Bluet, Enallagma signatum
Information on occurrence of this species also based on John C. Abbott's (2000) range maps in Odonata Central. Noted at Lynxhaven Crossing on 11 May 2003 (photographed, tg). I have seen this species on the west end of Camp Rio Vista on the Guadalupe River (photographed). Another was photographed from Lynxhaven Crossing on 29 September 2003 (photos not yet posted, tg).



Orange Bluet, Enallagma signatum
Lynxhaven Crossing, 11 May 2003
photos © by tony gallucci

Vesper Bluet, Enallagma vesperum
Information on occurrence of this species in Kerr County is entirely based on John C. Abbott's (2000) range maps in Odonata Central at this time. Further data on specimens or photographs will be posted here as it becomes available.

Citrine Forktail, Ischnura hastata
An individual of this species was photographed along TX 27 between Ingram and Mountain Home 9 April 2003 (tg). Information on occurrence of this species also based on John C. Abbott's (2000) range maps in Odonata Central. (also reported from Kendall, (Abbott)).

Citrine Forktail, Ichnura hastata
Near Cowboy Camp Meeting, TX 27, 9 April 2003
photos © by tony gallucci

Fragile Forktail, Ischnura posita posita
Information on occurrence of this species in Kerr County is entirely based on John C. Abbott's (2000) range maps in Odonata Central at this time. Further data on specimens or photographs will be posted here as it becomes available. (also reported from Kendall, (Abbott)).

Rambur's Forktail, Ischnura ramburii
Information on occurrence of this species also based on John C. Abbott's (2000) range maps in Odonata Central. I (tg) first saw a single individual of this species at Camp Rio Vista, 21 September 2003 (photographed). It was also observed at the River Inn Crossing on the South Fork of the Guadalupe 20-21 October 2003 (tg).



Rambur's Forktail, Ischnura ramburii
Rio Vista Crossing, Camp Rio Vista, Guadalupe River, 21 September 2003
photos © by tony gallucci

Desert Firetail, Telebasis salva
Information on occurrence of this species also based on John C. Abbott's (2000) range maps in Odonata Central. I (tg) first saw this species at Kerr WIldlife Management Area at a pond along the east road  September 2003 (photographed). More were photographed from Lynxhaven Crossing on 29 September 2003 (photos not yet posted, tg). It was common at the River Inn Crossing and at Lynxhaven on the South Fork of the GUadalupe on 21 October 2003 (tg). (also reported from Kendall, (Abbott)).

mixed and unidentifiable damselflies

Smoky Rubyspot, female, and Blue-ringed Dancer, Argia sedula, male
Camp Rio Vista Crossing, Guadalupe River, 1 September 2002
photos © by tony gallucci

damselfly sp., and Powdered Dancer, Argia moesta, male
Rio Vista Crossing, Guadalupe River, 1 September 2002
photos © by tony gallucci

Powdered Dancer, Argia moesta, and American Rubyspot, Hetaerina americana
Camp Rio Vista, Guadalupe River, 6 September 2002
photos © by tony gallucci

damselfly sp.
Camp Rio Vista Crossing, Guadalupe River, 10 September 2002
photos © by tony gallucci

damselfly sp.
Camp Rio Vista, 16 September 2002
photos © by tony gallucci

dancer sp., Argia sp.
Camp Rio Vista Crossing, Guadalupe River, 5 September 2002
photos © by tony gallucci


dancer sp., Argia sp.
Camp Rio Vista, 21 September 2002
photos © by tony gallucci

damselfly sp.
River Valley Ranch Creek drainage, Cade Loop, Ingram, 21 September 2002
photos © by tony gallucci

dancer sp., Argia sp.
Camp Rio Vista, 2 October 2002
photos © by tony gallucci

dancer sp., Argia sp.
Camp Rio Vista, 3 October 2002
photos © by tony gallucci

 dancer sp., Argia sp.
On Cowpen Daisy, Camp Rio Vista, 16 October 2002
photos © by tony gallucci

unknown damselfly
below Ingram Dam, 3 May 2003
photos © by tony gallucci

Kiowa Dancer, Argia immunda, Blue-ringed Dancer, Argia sedula, American Rubyspot, Hetaerina americana
Rio Vista Crossing, 9 April 2003
photos © by tony gallucci

unknown damselfly, perhaps teneral American Rubyspot, Hetaerina americana
Rio Vista Crossing, 24 May 2003
photos © by tony gallucci

Blue-ringed Dancer, Argia sedula, and Kiowa Dancer, Argia immunda
Rio Vista Crossing, 24 May 2003
photos © by tony gallucci

unknown damselfly, perhaps Arroyo Bluet, Enallagma praevarum
Lynxhaven Crossing, 11 May 2003
photos © by tony gallucci

unknown damselfly, perhaps Arroyo Bluet, Enallagma praevarum
Lynxhaven Crossing, 23 May 2003
photos © by tony gallucci


unknown damselfly, perhaps Arroyo Bluet, Enallagma praevarum
Lynxhaven Crossing, 6 May 2003
photos © by tony gallucci

unknown damselfly sp., perhaps Familiar Bluet, Enallagma civile
Sunset Cemetery, 4 May 2003
photos © by tony gallucci

unknown damselfly
Camp Rio Vista, 14 June 2003
photos © by tony gallucci

The following additional 7 species of Damselflies have not yet been reported from Kerr County, but have been reported from one of the immediate surrounding counties which share a county line with Kerr (Kendall, Gillespie, Kimble, Edwards, Real, Bandera), and could reasonably be expected to occur here. Since the first publication of this website, five species of this group have been added to the Kerr County list. The list includes Common Name, Scientific name (Counties where documented). All county record information here is derived from John C. Abbott's (2000) Odonata Central range maps and searchable database, to which i am much indebted and appreciative.

[Great Spreadwing, Archilestes grandis (Bandera)]
Published first here -- see new records on Damselflies I (tg).

Coppery Dancer, Argia cuprea (Kendall, Real, Bandera, Edwards)

[Leonora's Dancer, Argia leonorae (Bandera)]
Published first here -- see new records on Damselflies I (tg).

Sooty Dancer, Argia lugens (Kimble)

[Springwater Dancer, Argia plana (Real, Bandera)]
Published first here -- see new records on Damselflies I (tg).

[Neotropical Bluet, Enallagma novaehispaniae (Kendall, Real, Bandera, Edwards)]
Published first here -- see new records above for Kerr County (tg).

[Arroyo Bluet, Enallagma praevarum (Real, Edwards, Gillespie)]
A series of unknown bluets, possibly this species, was photographed from the North Fork of the Guadalupe River on 5 October 2003 (photos not yet posted, awaiting confirmation, tg). John Abbott has recently added this species to his database for Kerr County.