Several Minnesota state record Odonata, Aeshna subarctica, Ophiogomphus anomalus, Stylogomphus albistylus, Stylurus scudderi, and Coenagrion interrogatum are reported, along with notes on the distribution and habitat of Aeshna sitchensis. New county records for Minnesota Odonata are also reported

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New Distribution Records for Minnesota Odonata 
Wayne P. Steffens 
William A. Smith 
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NEW DISTRIBUTION RECORDS FOR MINNESOTA ODONATA 
Wayne P. Steffens 1 and William A. Smith2 
ABSTRACT 
Several Minnesota state 
record 
Odonata, Aeshna subarctica, Ophiogom­
phus 
anomaZus, Stylogomphus albistylus, 
Stylurus scudderi, and Coenagrion 
interrogatum are reported, along with notes on the distribution and habitat 
ofAeshna sitchensis. New county records for Minnesota Odonata are also re­
ported. 
Recent literature 
on 
Minnesota Odonata is limited. Hamrun et at (1971) 
reported 
on 
the county distribution of the seventy Anisopteran species known 
at that time. Other 
publications 
have since become available, but these are
not 
widely known. 
Carrol and Gunderson (1995) mapped the county distribu­
tion 
for 
86 Anisopteran species reported from earlier literature as well as 
museum 
specimens, 
but overlooked the Aeshna sitchensis Hagen reported by 
Walker 
(1912). 
We have used their booklet as a guide in determining the new 
Anisopteran county and state 
records. Westfall 
and May (1996) list 30 dam­
selfly species for the state but do not provide any county level information. 
The most recent published 
account of 
the county distribution of Minnesota 
Zygopterans 
is 
Whedon (1914), dealing only with the southern part of the 
state. 
All 
damselflies collected during our surveys were considered county 
records due to a lack of published data indicating otherwise. 
MATERIALS AND METHODS 
We collected over 7700 exuviae, larvae, and adults at 85 sites at eastern, 
central and northern 
:Minnesota 
rivers and peatlands in 1998 and 1999. An 
additional 1509 odonate specimens 
collected 
between 1991-1998 by other 
workers were 
also identified. Voucher specimens of 
state records will be de­
posited at th  University of Minnesota Insect Collection in St. Paul. 
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 
AESHNIDAE 
Aeshna subarctica Walker. We collected A. subarctica in three counties 
in August 
1998. We collected 
specimens at Pine Creek Scientific Natural 
11993 Holm Road, Two Harbors, MN 55616. 
2Bureau of Endangered 
Resources, 
V{I Dept. of Natural Resources, P.O. Box 7921, 
Madi on, WI 53707. 
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Area (SNA) in Roseau County, Red Lake SNA in Beltrami County, and Mulli­
gan Lake 
SNA 
in Lake of the Woods County. A. subarctica has been reported 
to inhabit spruce-tamarack bogs (Walker 1958), and that is largely true for 
these new locations. Most of our specimens were collected in r adjacent to 
forested black spruc  (Picea mariana) and tamarack (Larix laracina) bogs,
the 
former 
tree being dominant. The groundcover consisted of typical Min­
nesota 
bog-forest 
vegetation including Ledum groenlandicum, Chaemae­
daphne spp. and other ericaceous shrubs, sedges, and Sphagnum spp. The 
Pine Creek SNA specimen, an adult male, was collected near the edge of a 
spring 
fen 
and the adjacent bog forest, and one xuvia was collected in a 
spring 
fen 
channel just inside the Manitoba border. A single male and female 
were 
collected 
at Red Lake SNA at the edge of a forested bog and the adja­
cent 
fen. 
At both sites the specimens were collected as they foraged the 
sparse, stunted 
conifers 
of the forested bog edges. The two adult males col­
lected at Mulligan Lake SNA were taken as they foraged along 
a 
trail 
through 
a 
spruce and tamarack bog. STATE RECORD. 
Aeshna sitchensis Hagen. Though A. sitchensis was reported for Du­
luth 
(St. Louis County) 
by Walker (1912) it had not been confirmed in the 
state 
since 
then. Boole et al. (1974) reported possible larva of A. sitchensis 
(and A. septentrionalis), but do not provide a location and place doubt on 
their 
own 
determinations of larval Aeshna. We collected adults in Koochich­
ing, Roseau, and Lake of the Woods counties in August 1998. At the Pine
Creek 
SNA, 
A. sitchensis were seen numerous times in open areas of fen, and 
a female was collected in a narrow spring fen clearing. They were also col­
lected in a spring fen in the Sprague Creek SNA several miles to the east. 
Two males were collected and a female was observed ovipositing in m is  
peat at the edge of 
a 
spring fen channel. The spring channels are choked 
with bladderwort (Utricularia spp.) and Buckbean (Menyanthes trifoliata), 
and the pH of surface water was 7.1, as measured with an Oakton® pHThstr 
2. Several A. sitchensis larvae were also collected here. The Koochiching 
County 
site, Lost River SNA, 
was a similar spring fen habitat. Three adult 
males and 
one 
larva were collected at Lost River. The Lak  of the Woods 
County adult male was 
collected 
at the Winter Lake Road SNA, a large 
fen/water track dominated by sedges and shrubs. A. sitchensis may be more 
common in northwest Minnesota than our surveys and past literature indi­
cate, as only a sm ll perce tage of these habitat types were surveyed. STATE 
RECORD. 
Aeshna umbrosa Walker. Lake of the 
Woods County. COUNTY 
RECORD. Aeshna verticalis (Hagen). Roseau 
County. COUNTY RECORD. Basiaeschna janata Say. Carlton, 
Crow Wing, 
Morrison counties. 
OUNTY RECORDS. 
GOMPHIDAE 
Ophiogomphus anomalus Harvey. Gary Montz of the Minnesota 
Dept.of Natural Resources reported recent 
collections 
of Ophiogomphus 
anomalus Harvey from Minnesota to the authors. We inspected two mid-late 
instar O. anomalus larvae collected by Montz from two different sampli g 
stations 
from 
the Pigeon River in Cook County, MN, plus five mid-late instar 
larvae 
from four different 
stations in adjacent Ontario, Canada in 1992 and
1993. These sites are distributed over some 15 river miles. The River 
was characterized as 
a 
high gradient stream with very good to excellent 
water 
quality. Most 
study sites contained similar substrate to other streams 
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in northeastern Minnesota-i.e. boulder/cobble mixture over a sand or 
sand/gravel bottom. Unlike most streams in northeast Minnesota that are 
cold water trout streams, the Pigeon River is a cool to warm water stream. 
We 
also collected a dozen exuviae of 
O. anomalus on the upper St. Louis 
River in St. Louis County in June 1999. The nearest known stations for O. 
anomalus are 
two 
streams in the Thunder Bay District of Ontario (Don 
Sutherland 
pers. comm.) four 
streams in Iron and Gogebic counties in the 
western Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and the Saint Croix River in Burnett 
County, WI (unpublished data from W.A. Smith, 1998, and Michigan Natural 
Features 
Inventory, 1998). STATE RECORD. Stylogomphus albistylus (Hagen). We 
observed emergence 
of S. al­
bistylus on the St. Louis River in St. Louis County in June 1999. This is the
same 
site where 
O. anomalus exuviae were collected. We collected several S. 
albistylus exuviae at this location, and several more at anoth r site several 
miles upstr am. STATE RECORD. 
Stylurus scudderi 
(Selys). Ten S. 
swdderi exuviae were found at one 
location on the Sturg on River in Koochiching County in late August 1998. 
The 
Sturgeon River 
is about 18 m wide, th a substrate of sand, rubble, and
boulders, and moderate current. This is the only known site for S. scudderi 
in Minnesota, the nearest station being the Brule River in Bayfield County, 
WI. S. scudderi is also found in the Kenora and Thunder Bay Districts of On­
tario 
(Don 
Sutherland, pers. comm.). The Sturgeon River site s the western­
most 
location of 
the species in the U.S. STATE RECORD. 
Dromogomphus spinosus Selys. Itasca 
County. COUNTY RECORD. Gomphurus fraternus (Say). 
Aitken, Carlton, Crow Wing, Itasca, Lake 
of 
h  Woods, M rrison counties. COUNTY RECORDS. 
Gomphurus vastus Walsh. 
Aitken, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca, 
Lake 
of the Woods, Morrison, Stearn  countie . COUNTY RECORDS. 
Gomphurus ventricosus Walsh. Carlton, 
Koochiching, 
Lake of the 
Woods, St. Louis, Washington counties. COUNTY RECORDS. 
Gomphus viridifrons Hine. Carlton, Itasca, 
Koochiching, 
St. Louis 
counties. COUNTY RECORDS. 
Gomphus exilis Selys. Pine 
County. COUNTY RECORD. Gomphus graslinellus Walsh. 
Kanabec County. COUNTY RECORD. Gomphus lividus Selys. 
Carlton, 
Itasca counties. COUNTY RECORDS. 
Ophiogomphus colubrinus Selys. 
Koochiching, 
Lake of the Woods, 
Morrison counties. COUNTY RECORDS. 
Ophiogomphus rupinsulensis (Walsh). 
Koochiching, 
Washington 
counties. COUNTY RECORDS. 
Stylurus amnicola 
(Walsh). Koochiching, St. Louis counties. COUNTY 
RECORDS. Stylurus notatus (Rambur). 
Koochiching, Lake of 
the Woods, St. Louis 
counties. COUNTY RECORDS. 
Stylurus spiniceps (Walsh). 
Koochiching, 
Pine, St. Louis counties. 
COUNTY RECORDS. 
COENAGRIONIDAE 
Coenagrion interrogatum (Hagen). An adult male and female were 
collected in the Sand Lake SNA in Lake County. This species has not been re­
ported in the literature 
on 
Minnesota zygopterans (Wilson 1909, Whedon 
1914, Westfall and May 1996). STATE RECORD. 
Ennallagma cyathigerum (Charpentier). 
St. Louis 
County COUNTY 
RECORD. 
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Ennallagma ebrium (Hagen). Lake County. COUNTY RECORD. 
Nehellennia irene (Hagen). Lake, 
Koochiching 
counties. COUNTY 
RECORDS. 
LESTIDAE 
Lestes forcipatus Rambur. 
Although 
L. forcipatus was listed as ques­
tionable for Minnesota by Westfall and May (1996), it was reported for Blue 
Earth 
County by Whedon (1914), 
and we collected a single female in Roseau 
County. COUNTY RECORD. 
Lestes congener Hagen. Lake ofthe 
Woods, Roseau counties. COUNTY 
RECORDS. Lestes disjunctus 
Selys. Koochiching County. COUNTY RECORD. Lestes unguiculatus 
Hagen. Koochiching, 
Roseau counties. COUNTY 
RECORDS. 
MACROMIIDAE 
Didymops transversa (Say). 
Chisago, Washington counties. COUNTY 
RECORDS. Macomia illinoiensis Walsh. Carlton, Koochiching counties. COUNTY 
RECORDS. 
CORDULIIDAE 
Epitheca canis McLachlan. 
Roseau County. COUNTY RECORD. Epitheca spinigera Selys. Morrison County. COUNTY RECORD. Dor cordulia libera (Selys). 
Koochiching County. COUNTY RECORD. Neurocordulia yamaskanensis Provancher. 
Koochiching, 
Pine, St. 
Louis c unties. COUNTY RECORDS. 
Somatochlora forcipata (Hagen). 
Koochiching, 
St. Louis counties. 
COUNTY RECORD. 
Somatochlora franklini (Selys). 
Beltrami, Cook, Pine, St. Louis coun­
ties. COUNTY RECORDS. Somatochlora kennedyi Walker. Pine 
County. COUNTY RECORD. Somatochlora minor Calvert. Beltrami, 
Koochiching, 
Lake f the
Woods c unties. COUNTY RECORDS. 
Somatochlora walshii (Scudder). 
Koochiching, 
St Louis counties. 
COUNTY RECORDS. 
LIBELLULIDAE 
Leucorrhinia hudsonica (Selys). 
Koochiching, Pine, St. Louis coun­
ties. COUNTY RECORDS. Leucorrhinia intacta (Hagen). Roseau County. COUNTY RECORD. Libellula pulchella Drury. 
Koochiching County. COUNTY RECORD. Libellula quadrimaculata Linnaeus. Roseau 
County. COUNTY 
RECORD. Sympetrum costiferum (Hagen). 
Roseau County. COUNTY RECORD. 
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Sympetrum danae (Sulzer). Lake of the Woods, Roseau counties. 
COUNTY RECORDS. 
Sympetrum vicinum (Hagen). 
Roseau County. COUNTY RECORD. 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
We thank Gary Montz 
of 
the Minnesota Department of Natural Re­
sources for allowing us to report his O. anomalus state record and several 
county records. We thank the Michigan Natural Features Inventory Program 
(a partnership between the 
Michigan Dept. of 
Natural Resources and The 
N ture Conservancy) 
for 
sharing results from recent od nate surveys in 
Michigan. We thank DrJames Dunc  (Manitoba Natural Resources) for as­
sisting with surveys, Don Sutherland (Ontario Ministry of Natural 
Re­
sources) for providing 
Ontario records, David and Gary Leonhardt of Wask­
ish Minnesota 
for local 
habitat advice and the loan of an ATV, and Polaris 
Industries of Roseau Minnesota 
for providing vehicles 
and guides to help 
reach 
remote sites. 
Support for this project was received from the Minnesota 
Nongame Wildlife Tax Checkoff and the Minnesota Chapter of the Nature 
Conservancy through the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Divi­
sion ofFish and Wildlife, Natural Heritage and Nongame Research Program. 
LITERATURE CITED 
Boole, M. S., C. L. Hamrun and M. A. Anderson. 1974. The Minnesota species of 
Aeshna, with notes on their habits and distribution. (Odonata: 
Aeshnidae). 
Great 
Lakes 
Entomol. 
7: 19-22. 
Carroll, M. and R. Gunderson. 1995. Distribution of Minnesota Dragonflies (Odonata: 
Anisoptera). Oce. Pap. Aquat. Bio!. St. Cloud State Univ. 2: 1-.'32. 
Hamrun, 
C. L., Anderson, 
M. A. and M. Boole. 1971. Distribution and habitat prefer­
ence of Minnesota dragonfly species (Odonata: Anisoptera) II. Minn. Acad. Sci. Jour. 
37: 93-96. 
Walker, E. M. 1912. The North American dragonflies of the genus Aeshna. Univ. 
Toronto Studies, BioI. Series No. 11. 212 pp. 
Walker E. 
M. 1958. 
The Odonata of Canada and Alaska, VoL II. Part III: The 
Anisoptera-four families. Univ. of Toronto Press. 318 pp. 
Westfall, M. J. and M. L. May. 1996. Damselflies of North America. Scientific Publish­
ers. 649 pp. 
Whedon, A. D. 1914. Preliminary notes on the Odonata of Southern Minnesota. Rep. 
Minn. State. Entomo!., pp 77-103. 
Wilson, C. B. 1909. Dragon-flies 	of the Mississippi Valley collected during the pearl 
mussel 
investigations 
on the Mississippi River, July and August, 1907. Proc. U. S. 
National 
Mus., 1909. 
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The Great Lakes Entomologist Volume 32 Number 3 - Fall 1999 Number 3 - Fall 1999 Article 12 October 1999 New Distribution Records for Minnesota Odonata Wayne P. Steffens William A. Smith Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle  Part of the Entomology Commons Recommended Citation Steffens, Wayne P. and Smith, William A. 1999. "New Distribution Records for Minnesota Odonata," The Great Lakes Entomologist, vol 32 (2) Available at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle/vol32/iss2/12 This Peer-Review Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of Biology at ValpoScholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Great Lakes Entomologist by an authorized administrator of ValpoScholar. For more information, please contact a ValpoScholar staff member at scholar@valpo.edu. 1999 219THE GREAT LAKES ENTOMOLOGIST NEW DISTRIBUTION RECORDS FOR MINNESOTA ODONATA Wayne P. Steffens 1 and William A. Smith2 ABSTRACT Several Minnesota state record Odonata, Aeshna subarctica, Ophiogom­phus anomaZus, Stylogomphus albistylus, Stylurus scudderi, and Coenagrion interrogatum are reported, along with notes on the distribution and habitat ofAeshna sitchensis. New county records for Minnesota Odonata are also re­ported. Recent literature on Minnesota Odonata is limited. Hamrun et at (1971) reported on the county distribution of the seventy Anisopteran species known at that time. Other publications have since become available, but these arenot widely known. Carrol and Gunderson (1995) mapped the county distribu­tion for 86 Anisopteran species reported from earlier literature as well as museum specimens, but overlooked the Aeshna sitchensis Hagen reported by Walker (1912). We have used their booklet as a guide in determining the new Anisopteran county and state records. Westfall and May (1996) list 30 dam­selfly species for the state but do not provide any county level information. The most recent published account of the county distribution of Minnesota Zygopterans is Whedon (1914), dealing only with the southern part of the state. All damselflies collected during our surveys were considered county records due to a lack of published data indicating otherwise. MATERIALS AND METHODS We collected over 7700 exuviae, larvae, and adults at 85 sites at eastern, central and northern :Minnesota rivers and peatlands in 1998 and 1999. An additional 1509 odonate specimens collected between 1991-1998 by other workers were also identified. Voucher specimens of state records will be de­posited at th  University of Minnesota Insect Collection in St. Paul. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION AESHNIDAE Aeshna subarctica Walker. We collected A. subarctica in three counties in August 1998. We collected specimens at Pine Creek Scientific Natural 11993 Holm Road, Two Harbors, MN 55616. 2Bureau of Endangered Resources, V{I Dept. of Natural Resources, P.O. Box 7921, Madi on, WI 53707. 1Steffens and Smith: New Distribution Records for Minnesota OdonataPublished by ValpoScholar, 1999220 THE GREAT LAKES ENTOMOLOGIST Vol. 32, No.3 Area (SNA) in Roseau County, Red Lake SNA in Beltrami County, and Mulli­gan Lake SNA in Lake of the Woods County. A. subarctica has been reported to inhabit spruce-tamarack bogs (Walker 1958), and that is largely true for these new locations. Most of our specimens were collected in r adjacent to forested black spruc  (Picea mariana) and tamarack (Larix laracina) bogs,the former tree being dominant. The groundcover consisted of typical Min­nesota bog-forest vegetation including Ledum groenlandicum, Chaemae­daphne spp. and other ericaceous shrubs, sedges, and Sphagnum spp. The Pine Creek SNA specimen, an adult male, was collected near the edge of a spring fen and the adjacent bog forest, and one xuvia was collected in a spring fen channel just inside the Manitoba border. A single male and female were collected at Red Lake SNA at the edge of a forested bog and the adja­cent fen. At both sites the specimens were collected as they foraged the sparse, stunted conifers of the forested bog edges. The two adult males col­lected at Mulligan Lake SNA were taken as they foraged along a trail through a spruce and tamarack bog. STATE RECORD. Aeshna sitchensis Hagen. Though A. sitchensis was reported for Du­luth (St. Louis County) by Walker (1912) it had not been confirmed in the state since then. Boole et al. (1974) reported possible larva of A. sitchensis (and A. septentrionalis), but do not provide a location and place doubt on their own determinations of larval Aeshna. We collected adults in Koochich­ing, Roseau, and Lake of the Woods counties in August 1998. At the PineCreek SNA, A. sitchensis were seen numerous times in open areas of fen, and a female was collected in a narrow spring fen clearing. They were also col­lected in a spring fen in the Sprague Creek SNA several miles to the east. Two males were collected and a female was observed ovipositing in m is  peat at the edge of a spring fen channel. The spring channels are choked with bladderwort (Utricularia spp.) and Buckbean (Menyanthes trifoliata), and the pH of surface water was 7.1, as measured with an Oakton® pHThstr 2. Several A. sitchensis larvae were also collected here. The Koochiching County site, Lost River SNA, was a similar spring fen habitat. Three adult males and one larva were collected at Lost River. The Lak  of the Woods County adult male was collected at the Winter Lake Road SNA, a large fen/water track dominated by sedges and shrubs. A. sitchensis may be more common in northwest Minnesota than our surveys and past literature indi­cate, as only a sm ll perce tage of these habitat types were surveyed. STATE RECORD. Aeshna umbrosa Walker. Lake of the Woods County. COUNTY RECORD. Aeshna verticalis (Hagen). Roseau County. COUNTY RECORD. Basiaeschna janata Say. Carlton, Crow Wing, Morrison counties. OUNTY RECORDS. GOMPHIDAE Ophiogomphus anomalus Harvey. Gary Montz of the Minnesota Dept.of Natural Resources reported recent collections of Ophiogomphus anomalus Harvey from Minnesota to the authors. We inspected two mid-late instar O. anomalus larvae collected by Montz from two different sampli g stations from the Pigeon River in Cook County, MN, plus five mid-late instar larvae from four different stations in adjacent Ontario, Canada in 1992 and1993. These sites are distributed over some 15 river miles. The River was characterized as a high gradient stream with very good to excellent water quality. Most study sites contained similar substrate to other streams 2The Great Lakes Entomologist, Vol. 32, No. 2 [1999], Art. 12https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle/vol32/iss2/121999 221THE GREAT LAKES ENTOMOLOGIST in northeastern Minnesota-i.e. boulder/cobble mixture over a sand or sand/gravel bottom. Unlike most streams in northeast Minnesota that are cold water trout streams, the Pigeon River is a cool to warm water stream. We also collected a dozen exuviae of O. anomalus on the upper St. Louis River in St. Louis County in June 1999. The nearest known stations for O. anomalus are two streams in the Thunder Bay District of Ontario (Don Sutherland pers. comm.) four streams in Iron and Gogebic counties in the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and the Saint Croix River in Burnett County, WI (unpublished data from W.A. Smith, 1998, and Michigan Natural Features Inventory, 1998). STATE RECORD. Stylogomphus albistylus (Hagen). We observed emergence of S. al­bistylus on the St. Louis River in St. Louis County in June 1999. This is thesame site where O. anomalus exuviae were collected. We collected several S. albistylus exuviae at this location, and several more at anoth r site several miles upstr am. STATE RECORD. Stylurus scudderi (Selys). Ten S. swdderi exuviae were found at one location on the Sturg on River in Koochiching County in late August 1998. The Sturgeon River is about 18 m wide, th a substrate of sand, rubble, andboulders, and moderate current. This is the only known site for S. scudderi in Minnesota, the nearest station being the Brule River in Bayfield County, WI. S. scudderi is also found in the Kenora and Thunder Bay Districts of On­tario (Don Sutherland, pers. comm.). The Sturgeon River site s the western­most location of the species in the U.S. STATE RECORD. Dromogomphus spinosus Selys. Itasca County. COUNTY RECORD. Gomphurus fraternus (Say). Aitken, Carlton, Crow Wing, Itasca, Lake of h  Woods, M rrison counties. COUNTY RECORDS. Gomphurus vastus Walsh. Aitken, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca, Lake of the Woods, Morrison, Stearn  countie . COUNTY RECORDS. Gomphurus ventricosus Walsh. Carlton, Koochiching, Lake of the Woods, St. Louis, Washington counties. COUNTY RECORDS. Gomphus viridifrons Hine. Carlton, Itasca, Koochiching, St. Louis counties. COUNTY RECORDS. Gomphus exilis Selys. Pine County. COUNTY RECORD. Gomphus graslinellus Walsh. Kanabec County. COUNTY RECORD. Gomphus lividus Selys. Carlton, Itasca counties. COUNTY RECORDS. Ophiogomphus colubrinus Selys. Koochiching, Lake of the Woods, Morrison counties. COUNTY RECORDS. Ophiogomphus rupinsulensis (Walsh). Koochiching, Washington counties. COUNTY RECORDS. Stylurus amnicola (Walsh). Koochiching, St. Louis counties. COUNTY RECORDS. Stylurus notatus (Rambur). Koochiching, Lake of the Woods, St. Louis counties. COUNTY RECORDS. Stylurus spiniceps (Walsh). Koochiching, Pine, St. Louis counties. COUNTY RECORDS. COENAGRIONIDAE Coenagrion interrogatum (Hagen). An adult male and female were collected in the Sand Lake SNA in Lake County. This species has not been re­ported in the literature on Minnesota zygopterans (Wilson 1909, Whedon 1914, Westfall and May 1996). STATE RECORD. Ennallagma cyathigerum (Charpentier). St. Louis County COUNTY RECORD. 3Steffens and Smith: New Distribution Records for Minnesota OdonataPublished by ValpoScholar, 1999222 THE GREAr LAKES ENTOMOLOGIST Vol. 32, No.3 Ennallagma ebrium (Hagen). Lake County. COUNTY RECORD. Nehellennia irene (Hagen). Lake, Koochiching counties. COUNTY RECORDS. LESTIDAE Lestes forcipatus Rambur. Although L. forcipatus was listed as ques­tionable for Minnesota by Westfall and May (1996), it was reported for Blue Earth County by Whedon (1914), and we collected a single female in Roseau County. COUNTY RECORD. Lestes congener Hagen. Lake ofthe Woods, Roseau counties. COUNTY RECORDS. Lestes disjunctus Selys. Koochiching County. COUNTY RECORD. Lestes unguiculatus Hagen. Koochiching, Roseau counties. COUNTY RECORDS. MACROMIIDAE Didymops transversa (Say). Chisago, Washington counties. COUNTY RECORDS. Macomia illinoiensis Walsh. Carlton, Koochiching counties. COUNTY RECORDS. CORDULIIDAE Epitheca canis McLachlan. Roseau County. COUNTY RECORD. Epitheca spinigera Selys. Morrison County. COUNTY RECORD. Dor cordulia libera (Selys). Koochiching County. COUNTY RECORD. Neurocordulia yamaskanensis Provancher. Koochiching, Pine, St. Louis c unties. COUNTY RECORDS. Somatochlora forcipata (Hagen). Koochiching, St. Louis counties. COUNTY RECORD. Somatochlora franklini (Selys). Beltrami, Cook, Pine, St. Louis coun­ties. COUNTY RECORDS. Somatochlora kennedyi Walker. Pine County. COUNTY RECORD. Somatochlora minor Calvert. Beltrami, Koochiching, Lake f theWoods c unties. COUNTY RECORDS. Somatochlora walshii (Scudder). Koochiching, St Louis counties. COUNTY RECORDS. LIBELLULIDAE Leucorrhinia hudsonica (Selys). Koochiching, Pine, St. Louis coun­ties. COUNTY RECORDS. Leucorrhinia intacta (Hagen). Roseau County. COUNTY RECORD. Libellula pulchella Drury. Koochiching County. COUNTY RECORD. Libellula quadrimaculata Linnaeus. Roseau County. COUNTY RECORD. Sympetrum costiferum (Hagen). Roseau County. COUNTY RECORD. 4The Great Lakes Entomologist, Vol. 32, No. 2 [1999], Art. 12https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle/vol32/iss2/121999 THE GREAT LAKES ENTOMOLOGIST 	 223 Sympetrum danae (Sulzer). Lake of the Woods, Roseau counties. COUNTY RECORDS. Sympetrum vicinum (Hagen). Roseau County. COUNTY RECORD. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We thank Gary Montz of the Minnesota Department of Natural Re­sources for allowing us to report his O. anomalus state record and several county records. We thank the Michigan Natural Features Inventory Program (a partnership between the Michigan Dept. of Natural Resources and The N ture Conservancy) for sharing results from recent od nate surveys in Michigan. We thank DrJames Dunc  (Manitoba Natural Resources) for as­sisting with surveys, Don Sutherland (Ontario Ministry of Natural Re­sources) for providing Ontario records, David and Gary Leonhardt of Wask­ish Minnesota for local habitat advice and the loan of an ATV, and Polaris Industries of Roseau Minnesota for providing vehicles and guides to help reach remote sites. Support for this project was received from the Minnesota Nongame Wildlife Tax Checkoff and the Minnesota Chapter of the Nature Conservancy through the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Divi­sion ofFish and Wildlife, Natural Heritage and Nongame Research Program. LITERATURE CITED Boole, M. S., C. L. Hamrun and M. A. Anderson. 1974. The Minnesota species of Aeshna, with notes on their habits and distribution. (Odonata: Aeshnidae). Great Lakes Entomol. 7: 19-22. Carroll, M. and R. Gunderson. 1995. Distribution of Minnesota Dragonflies (Odonata: Anisoptera). Oce. Pap. Aquat. Bio!. St. Cloud State Univ. 2: 1-.'32. Hamrun, C. L., Anderson, M. A. and M. Boole. 1971. Distribution and habitat prefer­ence of Minnesota dragonfly species (Odonata: Anisoptera) II. Minn. Acad. Sci. Jour. 37: 93-96. Walker, E. M. 1912. The North American dragonflies of the genus Aeshna. Univ. Toronto Studies, BioI. Series No. 11. 212 pp. Walker E. M. 1958. The Odonata of Canada and Alaska, VoL II. Part III: The Anisoptera-four families. Univ. of Toronto Press. 318 pp. Westfall, M. J. and M. L. May. 1996. Damselflies of North America. Scientific Publish­ers. 649 pp. Whedon, A. D. 1914. Preliminary notes on the Odonata of Southern Minnesota. Rep. Minn. State. Entomo!., pp 77-103. Wilson, C. B. 1909. Dragon-flies 	of the Mississippi Valley collected during the pearl mussel investigations on the Mississippi River, July and August, 1907. Proc. U. S. National Mus., 1909. 5Steffens and Smith: New Distribution Records for Minnesota OdonataPublished by ValpoScholar, 1999

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