Mexican Odonata

Odonata of Mexico, By State

Compiled 1994, last revised April 2008

Dennis R. Paulson
University of Puget Sound
Tacoma, WA, 98416, USA

Enrique González Soriano
Universidad Nacional Autónoma
Mexico, D.F., Mexico

States

• AG - Aguascalientes
• BN - Baja California del Norte
• BS - Baja California del Sur
• CA - Campeche
• CP - Chiapas
• CH - Chihuahua
• CL - Coahuila
• CM - Colima
• DF - Distrito Federal
• DU - Durango
• GJ - Guanajuato
• GR - Guerrero
• HI - Hidalgo
• JA - Jalisco
• ME - México
• MI - Michoacan
• MO - Morelos
• NA - Nayarit
• NL - Nuevo León
• OA - Oaxaca
• PU - Puebla
• QE - Queretaro
• QN - Quintana Roo
• SL - San Luis Potosí
• SI - Sinaloa
• SO - Sonora
• TB - Tabasco
• TM - Tamaulipas
• TX - Tlaxcala
• VE - Veracruz
• YU - Yucatan
• ZA - Zacatecas

Species with no state indicated are recorded from "Mexico" in the literature or are known to one of us to have been collected in the country, but we are not sure of the state record.

We encourage individuals with access to Odonata collections from Mexico to inform us of missing records.

Zygoptera

Polythoridae
Cora marina - CP,GR,VE

Calopterygidae
Hetaerina americana - BS,CP,CH,CL,CM,DU,GR,HI,JA,ME,MI,MO,NA,NL,OA,PU,QE,SL,SI,SO,TM,VE
H. capitalis - CP,GR,HI,NA,OA,SL,VE
H. cruentata - CP,GR,HI,JA,MO,NA,NL,OA,PU,SL,TB,VE
H. infecta - CP,HI,NA,OA,SL,VE
H. occisa - CP,GR,HI,NA,OA,PU,SL,TB,TM,VE
H. pilula - CP,TB,VE
H. rudis - CP
H. sempronia - CP,OA,VE
H. titia - CP,CM,GR,NA,NL,QN,SL,TB,TM,VE
H. vulnerata - CP,DF,DU,GR,HI,MI,MO,NA,NL,OA,PU,QE,SI,SO,VE

Amphipterygidae
Amphipteryx "agrioides" - CP
A. longicaudata - JA, OA

Lestidae
Archilestes californicus - BS,SO
A. grandis - BS,CP,CH,DF,DU,GJ,GR,HI,JA,MO,NA,NL,OA,PU,QE,SL,SI,SO,TB,TM,V
A. latialatus - CP,OA,VE
A. regalis - HI,SL,VE
Lestes alacer - CH,CP,CL,DF,DU,HI,ME,MI,MO,OA,PU,TM,VE
L. alfonsoi - VE

L. forficula - CA,OA,QN,TB,TM,VE,YU
L. sigma - CP,GR,JA,OA,SL,SI,SO,TM,VE
L. simplex - GR,MO
L. tenuatus - CP,JA,MO,NA,OA,QN,SL,VE,YU
L. tikalus - CP,CM,OA,QN,YU

Perilestidae
Perissolestes magdalenae - CP,OA,VE

Megapodagrionidae
Heteragrion albifrons - CP,OA,VE
H. alienum - CP,OA,QN,TB,VE
H. azulum - VE
H. tricellulare - CP,OA,TB,VE
Paraphlebia hyalina - VE
P. quinta - CP,OA,VE
P. zoe - HI,PU,SL,VE

Pseudostigmatidae
Mecistogaster modesta - CP,HI,PU,SL,TM,VE
M. ornata - CP,DU,GR,JA,NA,OA,SL,SI,TM,VE
Megaloprepus caerulatus - CP,OA,VE
Pseudostigma aberrans - CP,OA,SL,TB,VE
P. accedens - QN,VE

Platystictidae
Palaemnema angelina - CP
P. desiderata - CP,OA,TB,VE
P. domina - CP,MO,NA,SO
P. nathalia - CP,OA
P. paulicaxa - PU, VE
P. paulicoba - NL,OA,PU,SL,VE
P. paulina
P. paulitaba - CP,TB,VE
P. paulitoyaca - CP,HI,OA,SL,VE

Protoneuridae
Neoneura aaroni
Neoneura amelia - CA,CP,CM,NA,OA,QN,SL,SO,TB,VE
N. paya - CP,OA,TB,VE
Protoneura aurantiaca - CP,SL,TB,VE
P. cara - CM,CP,GR,MO,NA,OA,SL,SO,TM,VE
P. corculum - CA,QN,VE,YU
P. cupida - CP,HI,SL,VE
P. rojiza - OA
Psaironeura remissa - OA,TB,VE

Coenagrionidae
Acanthagrion inexpectum - CA,VE,YU
A. quadratum - CP,HI,NL,OA,PU,QN,SL,TB,TM,VE,YU
Amphiagrion abbreviatum - BN
Anisagrion allopterum - CP,GR
A. truncatipenne - CP
Apanisagrion lais - CH,CP,GJ,GR,HI,MI,MO,NA,OA,PU,SL,SI,SO,TM,VE
Argia agrioides - BN,BS,CP
A. anceps - CH,CP,GR,HI,JA,MI,MO,SI,SO,VE
A. apicalis - NL
A. barretti - NL,PU,SL,TM
A. calida - HI,PU,SL,TM,VE
A. carlcooki - CM,JA,MO,OA,SO
A. chelata - CP,OA
A. cuprea - CP,HI,NA,NL,QE,SL,SO,VE
A. deami - HI,ME
A. extranea - CH,CP,GR,HI,JA,MI,MO,NA,OA,PU,SL,SI,SO,VE
A. frequentula - CP,GR,MO,PU,QN,SL,TB,VE
A. fumipennis - CH,DU,HI,NL,SL,SO
A. funcki - CH,CP,DF,GR,HI,JA,MO,NA,OA,SO,VE
A. funebris - CP,VE
A. garrisoni - NL,SL,TM
A. gaumeri - QN,VE,YU
A. harknessi - NA,SO
A. herberti - GR,OA
A. hinei - BN,CH,CL,SI,SO
A. immunda - CP,CH,HI,NA,NL,OA,PU,SL,TM,VE
A. indicatrix - CP,TB
A. lacrimans - CH,DU,HI,ME,MO,NL,SI,SO
A. lugens - CH,CP,DU,HI,NA,OA,SO,VE
A. medullaris - HI
A. moesta - CH,JA,MI,MO,NL,SO,TM
A. munda - CH,DU,SL,SO
A. nahuana - AG,CH,DF,DU,HI,JA,ME,MI,MO,NL
A. oculata - CH,CP,GR,HI,JA,NA,NL,OA,QE,SL,SO,TB,VE
A. oenea - BS,CP,CH,GR,HI,MO,NA,OA,PU,QE,SL,SO,TM,VE
A. pallens - CH,GR,JA,MO,NA,OA,PU,SO
A. percellulata - CP,PU,VE
A. pima - SO
A. pipila - CP,TB,VE
A. plana - CH,DF,DU,GR,HI,ME,MI,MO,NL,SL,SI,SO
A. pocomana - CP,MO
A. popoluca - TB,VE
A. pulla - CP,CM,GR,HI,JA,MO,NA,OA,PU,SI,SO,VE
A. rhoadsi - HI,NL,PU,SL,TM,VE
A. sabino - JA,SO
A. sedula - CH,CL,DU,NL,PU,SL,SO,TM,VE
A. tarascana - CH,DU,GJ,GR,HI,JA,MI,MO,OA,PU,SO,VE,ZA
A. tezpi - BS,CP,GR,JA,MI,MO,NA,OA,PU,SI,SO
A. tonto - CH,DU,MO,NL,SO
A. translata - CH,CP,CH,DU,HI,NL,OA,PU,QE,QN,SL,SI,SO,TB,TM,VE
A. ulmeca - CP,GR,HI,PU,SL,SO,VE
A. variabilis - CP,GR,NA,OA,VE
A. vivida - BN,BS
A. westfalli - CP,NL,SL,TM,VE
Chrysobasis lucifer - VE
Enacantha caribbea - CA,CP,HI,OA,QN,SL,YU
Enallagma annexum - BN
E. basidens - CH,CL,NL,TM
E. boreale - DU
E. carunculatum - BN
E. civile - AG,BN,BS,CP,CH,CL,DF,DU,HI,JA,ME,MI,MO,NA,NL,OA,PU,SL,SI,SO,TM,TX,VE
E. durum - TM
E. eiseni - BN,BS,SO
E. exsulans - HI,NL,TM
E. novaehispaniae - BS,CP,CM,GR,HI,MO,NA,OA,PU,QE,QN,SL,SI,SO,TM,VE
E. praevarum - AG,BN,CH,CL,DF,DU,GR,HI,ME,MI,MO,NA,NL,OA,PU,SL,SO,VE
E. rua - CP
E. semicirculare - CP,CL,GR,HI,JA,MO,NA,PU,QE,SL,SI,SO,TM,VE
Hesperagrion heterodoxum - CH,DU,HI,MI,MO,NL,OA,PU,SL,SO,VE
Ischnura barberi - SO
I. capreolus - CA,CP,CM,NA,QN,SL,TM,VE
I. cervula - BN,SO
I. damula - SO
I. demorsa - CH,CL,DU,HI,JA,ME,MI,OA,QE,SL,SI,SO
I. denticollis - BN,BS,CP,CH,DF,DU,HI,JA,ME,MI,NA,OA,PU,SO,TX,VE
I. hastata - BS,CP,CM,JA,MI,MO,NA,NL,OA,PU,QN,SL,SI,SO,TB,TM,VE,YU
I. posita - HI,QN,SL
I. ramburii - BS,CA,CH,CP,CM,JA,ME,MI,NA,OA,QN,SL,SI,SO,TM,VE,YU
Leptobasis candelaria - VE
L. melinogaster - JA,OA
L. vacillans - CP,CM,MO,NA,PU,QN,SL,SI,VE
Nehalennia minuta - CA,CP,NA,OA,QN,SL,VE,YU
Neoerythromma cultellatum - CA,CP,CM,OA,QN,SL,TM,VE,YU
N. gladiolatum - CM,GR,JA,NA,SI
Telebasis collopistes - TB,VE
T. digiticollis - CP,CM,OA,QN,TB,VE
T. filiola - CP,CM,NA,SL,TM,VE
T. griffinii - NA,OA,SL,SO,TB,VE
T. incolumis - BN,BS
T. isthmica - CP,NA
T. salva - BS,CA,CP,CH,CM,DF,DU,GR,HI,JA,MO,NA,NL,OA,PU,QE,QN,SL,SI,SO,TM,VE,YU

Anisoptera

Aeshnidae
Aeshna persephone - CH,NA,SO
A. walkeri - BC
A. williamsoniana - MO,VE
Anax amazili - CA,CP,CM,HI,ME,NA,SL,SI,TM,VE
A. concolor - CO,GR,OA,QN,VE,YU
A. junius - BN,BS,CH,CL,DF,DU,HI,JA,MI,MO,NA,SI,SO,TM,VE,YU
A. walsinghami - BN,BS,CH,DU,GR,NA,SO
Coryphaeschna adnexa - CP,CM,MO,NA,QN,SL,TB,TM,VE,YU
C. apeora - VE
C. diapyra - CM,NA,QN,VE
C. viriditas - CP,CM,QN,TB,TM,VE,YU
Epiaeschna heros
Gynacantha helenga - CM,JA,MO,NA,QN,SL,TB,VE
G. laticeps - VE
G. mexicana - ME,QN,SL,VE,YU
G. nervosa - CA,CP,GR,JA,QN,SL,SI,SO,VE,YU
Oplonaeschna armata - CP,DF,DU,GJ,HI,MI,MO,VE
O. magna - HI,MO
Remartinia luteipennis - BS,CH,CP,DU,HI,JA,ME,MI,MO,NA,NL,OA,SO,VE
R. secreta - SL,VE
Rhionaeschna cornigera - CP,OA
R. dugesi - BS,CH,DU,GJ,ME,OA,SO,VE
R. jalapensis - CH,CP,DU,GR,HI,MI,MO,PU,VE
R. manni - BS
R. multicolor - AG,BS,CH,DF,DU,HI,JA,ME,MI,MO,SO,TX
R. psilus - AG,BS,CP,HI,JA,MO,NA,PU,SL,SO,TM,VE,YU
R. vazquezae - GR,NA
Triacanthagyna caribbea - CA,CP,JA,NA,QN,TB,VE,YU
T. dentata - VE
T. ditzleri - JA,TB,VE
T. septima - CA,CP,NA,QN,TB,VE

Gomphidae
Agriogomphus tumens - CP,VE
Aphylla angustifolia - NL,OA,QN,SL,TB,TM,VE
A. caraiba - QN
A. protracta - CL,CM,JA,MO,NA,SL,SI,SO,TM,VE
A. williamsoni - QN
Archaeogomphus furcatus - CP
Dromogomphus spoliatus - NL
Epigomphus clavatus - CP
E. crepidus - NA, OA
E. donnellyi - VE
E. flinti - OA
E. paulsoni - CP
E. subobtusus - CP
E. sulcatistyla - VE
Erpetogomphus agkistrodon - VE
E. boa - PU,VE
E. bothrops - CM,CP,GR,JA,MI,MO,NA,OA,SI,SL,SO,TM,VE
E. compositus - BN,BS,SO
E. constrictor - NL,SL,TM,VE
E. cophias - GJ,GR,MI,MO
E. crotalinus - CH,DU,GR,HI,JA,ME,MI,MO,NA,PU
E. designatus - CH,CL,DU,NL,TM
E. elaps - CP,GR,HI,JA,MI,MO,NA,NL,OA,QE,SL,SI,SO,TM,VE
E. erici - HI,VE
E. eutainia - CP,GR,MI,MO,OA,PU,SL,TM,VE
E. heterodon - CH
E. lampropeltis - BS,CH,DU,SO
E. liopeltis - HI,MI,NL,SL
E. ophibolus - CP,VE
E. sipedon - DU,JA,MO,NA,PU
E. viperinus - VE
Gomphus gonzalezi - SL
G. militaris - NL
Octogomphus specularis - BS
Ophiogomphus purepecha - MI
Phyllocycla breviphylla - CL,SL,TM,VE
P. elongata - GR,JA,MO,NA,OA,SI,SO
P. speculatrix - VE
P. volsella - CP,OA,TB,VE
Phyllogomphoides albrighti - NL,SL,TM
P. apiculatus - GR,JA,MI,NA,OA,SI
P. bifasciatus - CP,JA,OA
P. danieli - MO
P. duodentatus - CP,PU,SL,VE
P. indicatrix - CP
P. luisi - MO
P. nayaritensis - NA,SO
P. pacificus - CP,CM,GR,JA,MI,MO,NA,OA
P. pugnifer - CP,VE
P. stigmatus - NL
P. suasus - CP,GR,HI,NA,NL,PU,SL,TM,VE
Progomphus amarillus - SL
P. anomalus - CP
P. belyshevi - MO,SO
P. borealis - BS,CH,DU,JA,MI,SO
P. clendoni - CP,CM,GR,JA,MO,NA,OA,SL,SO,TM,VE
P. longistigma - CP
P. mexicanus - OA,SI,VE
P. obscurus
P. pygmaeus - CP,OA,VE
P. risi - CP
P. williamsi
P. zonatus - CP,SI
Stylurus falcatus - JA
S. intricatus - CH
S. plagiatus - NL

Cordulegastridae
Cordulegaster diadema - DF,DU,ME,MI,MO,SO
C. godmani - GR,HI,VE

Macromiidae
Macromia annulata - NL,SL
M. magnifica - CH,DU,HI,SO

Corduliidae
Epitheca sp. - DU
Neocordulia batesi - OA

Libellulidae
Anatya normalis - CP,NA,QN,VE,YU
Brachymesia furcata - BS,CA,HI,MO,QN,SI,SO,TM,VE,YU
B. herbida - CA,GR,NA,SL,SI,TB,TM,VE,YU
Brechmorhoga latialata - HI,VE
B. mendax - BS,CH,GR,NL,SL,SO,TM,VE
B. nubecula - CP,HI,SL,TB,VE
B. pertinax - CH,CP,MO,NA,OA,SO,VE
B. praecox - CH,CP,GR,JA,MO,NA,OA,QE,SL,TB,TM,VE
B. rapax - CP,OA,VE
B. tepeaca - DF,TM,VE
B. vivax - CP,HI,NA,PU,SL,VE
Cannaphila insularis - CP,CM,JA,NA,QN,SL,TB,VE,YU
C. vibex - CP,HI,OA,VE
Celithemis eponina - NL
Dythemis fugax - SO,TM
D. maya - GR,JA,MO,NA,OA,SI,SO,TM,VE
D. multipunctata - CP,GR,HI,NA,NL,PU,SL,SO,TM,VE
D. nigrescens - BS,CM,GR,HI,JA,MO,NA,NL,OA,PU,SL,SI,SO,TM,VE
D. sterilis - BS,CP,CM,HI,NA,OA,PU,QN,SL,SI,SO,TM,VE,YU
D. velox - DU,NL,TM
Elasmothemis cannacrioides - CP,SL,VE
Erythemis attala - CP,CM,JA,MO,NA,OA,SL,TB,VE,YU
E. collocata - BS,CP,CH,CL,DF,DU,JA,MI,SO,TX
E. haematogastra - TB,TM,VE
E. mithroides - CP,NA,OA,SL,TM,VE,YU
E. peruviana - CP,SL,TB,TM,VE
E. plebeja - BS,CA,CP,CM,DF,GR,JA,MO,NA,OA,PU,SL,SI,SO,TB,TM,VE,YU
E. simplicicollis - CA,CM,DF,JA,SL,TM,VE,YU
E. vesiculosa - CA,CP,CM,DF,DU,JA,ME,MO,NA,OA,SL,SI,SO,TM,VE,YU
Erythrodiplax abjecta - CP
E. andagoya - VE
E. basifusca - BN,BS,CH,DU,GR,JA,MI,MO,NA,OA,PU,SI,SO,VE
E. berenice - BN,BS,CA,OA,QN,SI,SO,VE,YU
E. fervida - CA,CP,CM,DF,JA,OA,QN,SL,TB,TM,VE,YU
E. funerea - CP,CL,CM,DF,GR,JA,MI,MO,NA,OA,PU,SI,SO,VE
E. fusca - CA,CP,CM,HI,MO,OA,PU,SL,TB,TM,VE,YU
E. umbrata - CA,CP,GR,HI,MO,NA,NL,OA,PU,QN,SL,TB,TM,VE,YU
Idiataphe cubensis - CA,CP,QN,TM,VE,YU
Libellula comanche - CH,SO
L. croceipennis - BS,CP,CM,GR,HI,MO,NA,NL,OA,PU,SL,SI,SO,TM,VE
L. foliata - CP
L. gaigei - QN,SI,VE
L. herculea - CA,CP,HI,OA,SL,VE,YU
L. luctuosa - CH,SO
L. needhami - JA,QN,TM
L. nodisticta - DF,DU,JA,ME,MI,SO,TX
L. saturata - BS,CH,CL,DF,DU,GJ,HI,JA,MI,MO,NA,NL,OA,PU,SO,VE
Macrodiplax balteata - BN,BS,QN,SI,VE,YU
Macrothemis delia - CP
M. extensa - CP
M. hemichlora - CM,CP,NA,QN,TB,TM,VE
M. inacuta - CM,CP,MO,NA,NL,OA,SL,SI,SO,TM,VE
M. inequiunguis - BS,CP,GR,HI,NA,NL,SL,TB,VE
M. leucozona - CP,TM,VE
M. musiva - TB,VE
M. pseudimitans - BS,CP,DF,GR,HI,MO,NA,OA,PU,QE,SL,SO,TB,TM,VE
M. ultima - JA,SO
Miathyria marcella - CM,CP,DF,HI,JA,MO,NA,OA,QE,SL,SI,SO,TB,TM,VE,YU
M. simplex - CP,GR,NA,OA,QN,SL,TB,TM,VE
Micrathyria aequalis - BS,CA,CM,CP,JA,MO,NA,OA,PU,QN,SL,SI,SO,TB,TM,VE
M. atra - CP,NA,VE
M. debilis - CA,CP,OA,QN,SL,TB,TM,VE,YU
M. dictynna - CP
M. didyma - BS,CA,CP,HI,JA,MO,NA,OA,QN,SL,SI,SO,TB,TM,VE,YU
M. dissocians - CP,CM,OA,SL,TB,VE
M. hagenii - BS,CA,CP,GR,NA,NL,OA,PU,QN,SL,SI,SO,TM,VE,YU
M. ocellata - CP,CM,GR,NA,OA,SL,TB,VE
M. schumanni - CP,CM,GR,JA,NA,OA
Nephepeltia chalconota - OA,VE
Orthemis discolor - BS,CP,HI,NA,OA,SI,SL,SO,TM,VE,YU
O. ferruginea - AG,BS,CA,CH,CL,CM,CP,DF,DU,GR,HI,JA,MI,MO,NA,NL,OA,PU,QE,QN,SL,SI,SO,TB,TM,VE,YU
O. levis - CP,JA,NA,OA,SI,VE,YU
Pachydiplax longipennis - BS,CL,DF,DU,JA,MI,NA,SI,SO,TM,VE
Paltothemis cyanosoma - GR,JA
P. lineatipes - BS,CP,CH,CL,DU,GR,JA,ME,MO,NL,OA,QE,SL,SI,SO,VE
Pantala flavescens - BS,CA,CH,CL,CM,CP,DF,DU,GR,HI,JA,ME,MO,NA,NL,OA,PU,QN,SL,SI,SO,TB,TM,VE,YU
P. hymenaea - BN,BS,CA,CH,CL,CP,DF,DU,GR,MO,NA,NL,QN,SI,SO,TM,VE,YU
Perithemis domitia - CM,CP,HI,JA,NA,NL,OA,PU,QN,SL,SI,SO,TB,VE,YU
P. intensa - BS,CL,CM,GR,JA,MI,MO,NA,PU,SI,SO
P. mooma - CA,CP,DF,DU,HI,MO,NA,OA,PU,QN,TB,TM,VE,YU
P. tenera - CL,DU,SO,TM
Planiplax sanguiniventris - CA,QN,SL,TM,VE,YU
Plathemis lydia - NL,SO
P. subornata - CH,JA,SO
Pseudoleon superbus - BS,CP,DF,DU,GR,JA,MO,NA,NL,OA,PU,QE,SL,SI,SO,TM,VE
Sympetrum corruptum - AG,BN,BS,CH,CL,DF,DU,HI,JA,ME,MI,MO,NA,SO,TM,VE
S. illotum - BS,CH,CP,DF,DU,GR,HI,JA,ME,MI,MO,NA,OA,PU,SO,TX,VE
S. signiferum - CH,DU,NA,SO
Tauriphila argo - CM,QN
T. australis - CP,NA,SL,SO,TB,VE
T. azteca - CP,CM,JA,NA,QN,SL,SO,TB,VE
Tholymis citrina - CA,CP,DF,GR,NA,QN,SL,TB,VE
Tramea abdominalis - CA,CP,MI,OA,QN,SL,TM,VE,YU
T. binotata - CP,QN,VE
T. calverti - BS,CA,CP,DF,DU,JA,NA,QN,SL,SI,SO,TB,VE,YU
T. insularis - CA,VE
T. lacerata - BS,QN,SL,SO,TM,VE,YU
T. onusta - BN,BS,CP,CM,DF,GR,HI,JA,MO,NA,NL,OA,PU,QN,SL,SI,SO,TB,TM,VE,YU
Uracis fastigiata
U. imbuta - CP,OA,QN