Käyttäjän upupamartin tunnistukset

This species has recently been elevated from subspecies status to full species. In their 2016 paper (Genome Biol. Evol. 8:915–931), Grishin and Warren describe several morphological features of P. sennae ssp. marcellina that are a good fit to the female pictured here. The range of P. marcellina includes South Texas with P. sennae ssp. eubule likely occurring sympatrically in Bexar County.

Red-tipped Swampdamsel
Leptobasis vacillans
teneral male
Santa Ana N.W.R.,
Hidalgo Co., Texas
22 May 2009

This image taken on the day this species was discovered new to the U.S. Three shots of a teneral male posted.

I was with Dr. John Abbott when he found this species at Santa Ana NWR. We co-authoured a paper about this and another new Texas species.

Lasley, Greg W., and John C. Abbott. 2009. Two new damselflies for Texas. Argia 21:
17-18.