A Hybrid Male in the Genus Ophiogomphus (Odonata: Gomphidae)

Authors

K. J. Tennessen, Florida State Collection of ArthropodsFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2014

Citation

Insecta Mundi 0367: 1–6

Comments

Published in 2014 by Center for Systematic Entomology, Inc. P.O. Box 141874 Gainesville, FL 32614-1874 USA http://centerforsustematicentomology.org/

Copyright held by K. J. Tennessen. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons, Attribution Non-Commercial License.

Abstract

A gomphid male from west-central Wisconsin (Eau Claire County, North Fork Eau Claire River, 11 June 1994, K. J. Tennessen leg) with characters that are intermediate between Ophiogomphus carolus Needham, 1897 and Ophiogomphus rupinsulensis (Walsh), 1862 is described and illustrated. The specimen appears to be a hybrid based on intermediate character states of 1) color pattern (slightly closer to O. carolus), 2) hamule morphology (shaped slightly more like those of O. carolus), and 3) anal appendage morphology (slightly more like those of O. rupinsulensis).