Archilestes grandis (Rambur) (Odonata: Lestidae) is a large lestid damselfly previously unknown from Michigan. A population was found in 2005 in Wayne County, Michigan

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The Great Lakes Entomologist Volume 39 Numbers 1 & 2 - Spring/Summer 2006 Numbers 1 & 2 - Spring/Summer 2006 Article 12 April 2006 Archilestes Grandis (Rambur) (Odonata: Lestidae): New for Michigan Julie A. Craves Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle  Part of the Entomology Commons Recommended Citation Craves, Julie A. 2006. "Archilestes Grandis (Rambur) (Odonata: Lestidae): New for Michigan," The Great Lakes Entomologist, vol 39 (1) Available at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle/vol39/iss1/12 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. 88 THE GREAT LAKES ENTOMOLOGIST Vol. 39, Nos. 1 & 2115911 Andover Drive, Dearborn, MI 48120. (email: jcraves@umd.umich.edu).ARCHILESTES GRANDIS (RAMBUR)  (ODONATA: LESTIDAE): NEW FOR MICHIGANJulie A. Craves1 ABSTRACTArchilestes grandis (Rambur) (Odonata: Lestidae) is a large lestid dam-selfly previously unknown from Michigan.  A population was found in 2005 in Wayne County, Michigan. ____________________In the late afternoon on 27 September 2005, Darrin O’Brien and I observed a very large Lestes perched by a retention pool in Livonia, Wayne County, Michi-gan, T1S R9E, sec 7.  We collected it, and verified that it was a female Archilestes grandis (Rambur) (Odonata: Lestidae).  The pool was located at the end of a small creek just before it entered into a culvert running under a major road. We followed the creek upstream, and observed at least five more individuals before the sun set, collecting a male.  These two vouchers were deposited in the Insect Collection at the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ).  I returned the next day, which was exceptionally windy.  Nonetheless, I was able to photograph two pairs of A. grandis in tandem, as well as several additional males (e.g., Fig. 1).This is the first record of this species from Michigan.  It does not appear on historical lists of Michigan Odonata (Byers 1927, Kormondy 1958, O’Brien 1997), nor were there any specimens in the Insect Collection at the UMMZ, where vouchers of Michigan Odonata are housed.The range of A. grandis extends south through Mexico and Central America to Colombia and Venezuela, but until the 1920s, it was found in the United States only in the southwestern states (Westfall and May 1996).  It has since expanded its range, and is now found from as far northeast as western New England (Donnelly 2004).  In the Great Lakes region, it was first found in Ohio in 1927 (Williamson 1931), and is now considered uncommon in scattered loca-tions throughout that state (Glotzhober and McShaffrey 2002).  The first record for Wisconsin is from 8 September 1978 (Borkin 1985) and it has since been recorded in 3 more southern counties (WDNR 2004, Reese 2005).  Canada’s first record is from 26 August 2002, at Ojibway Prairie Provincial Nature Reserve, Windsor, Essex County, Ontario; 1 male was collected, but no others were found despite searching into October (Pratt and Paiero 2004).  It has been recorded in 9 Illinois and 2 Indiana counties (Donnelly 2004).Archilestes grandis is found in slow or moderate-flow streams and permanent ponds (Westfall and May 1996, Moskowitz and Bell 1998).  It flies late in summer, with mating taking place in October in Ohio (Williamson 1931) and Pennsylvania (Ferris 1951).  Oviposition takes place in non-aquatic plants, usually in plant parts that are directly over water (Williamson 1931, Bick and Bick 1970).  In Ohio, it is unknown whether it overwinters as eggs or larvae (Glotzhober and McShaffrey 2002), although in North Carolina the species apparently overwintered in either the egg stage or as very early larval instars (Ingram 1976).The unnamed creek in Wayne County, part of the Rouge River watershed, extends from the culvert under the road, where the first female was collected, west ~ 1 km. It is shallow (generally less than a few centimeters deep), clear, with a sandy bottom, and is ~ 2 to 3 meters across.  Prior to 2005, the creek 1Craves: <i>Archilestes Grandis</i> (Rambur) (Odonata: Lestidae): New forPublished by ValpoScholar, 20062006 THE GREAT LAKES ENTOMOLOGIST 89ran through an ~20 ha undeveloped lot.  The lot has been cleared, graded, and readied for development.  Some roads are complete, and bridges now span the creek in four places.  At these bridge crossings the substrate is siltier, trash has accumulated, and there is little protection from runoff from the roads.  A “natu-ral” buffer of only a few meters protects the creek but the vegetation consists of weedy species such as buckthorns (Rhamnus sp.) and box elder saplings (Acer negundo) which have overgrown most of the length of the creek.Archilestes grandis is a species that is extremely tolerant of poor water quality and its ability to flourish in a variety of degraded habitats (such as the Wayne County site) may explain the species range expansion over the last 80 years (Moskowitz and Bell 1998).LITERATURE CITEDBick, G. H., and J. C. Bick  1970.  Oviposition in Archilestes grandis (Rambur) (Odonata: Lestidae). Entomol. News 81: 157-163.Borkin, S. S.  1985.  Archilestes grandis in Wisconsin (Odonata: Lestidae). Gt. Lakes Entomol. 18: 96.Byers, F. C.  1927.  An annotated list of the Odonata of Michigan. Occ. Papers Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. 183: 1-15.Donnelly, T. W.  2004.  Distribution of North American Odonata. Part III: Calopterygi-dae, Lestidae, Coenagrionidae, Protoneuridae, Platystictidae, with data sources and bibliography, parts 1-III.  Bull. Am. Odonatol. 8: 33-99.Ferris, C. D.  1951.  The discovery of Archilestes grandis in eastern Pennsylvania (Odo-nata). Entomol. News 62: 304.Figure 1. Pair of Archilestes grandis in tandem.2The Great Lakes Entomologist, Vol. 39, No. 1 [2006], Art. 12https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle/vol39/iss1/1290 THE GREAT LAKES ENTOMOLOGIST Vol. 39, Nos. 1 & 2Glotzhober, R. C., and D. McShaffrey, eds.  2002.  Dragonflies and Damselflies of Ohio. Ohio Biological Surv., Columbus, OH.Ingram, B. R.  1976. Life histories of three species of Lestidae in North Carolina, United States (Zygoptera). Odonatologica 5: 231-244.Kormondy, E. J.  1958.  Catalogue of the Odonata of Michigan. Misc. Pub. Mus. Zool. No. 104. Univ. Mich. Mus. Zool., Ann Arbor.Moskowitz, D.P., and D. M. Bell.  1998.  Archilestes grandis (Great Spreadwing) in central New Jersey, with notes on water quality. Bull. Amer. Odonatol. 5: 49-54.O’Brien, M. F.  1997.  Michigan Odontata Survey Collector’s Handbook. Univ. Mich. Mus. Zool., Ann Arbor.Pratt, P. D., and S. M. Paiero.  2004.  Archilestes grandis (Rambur) (Odonata: Lestidae), New to Canada, pp 12-13. In P. M. Catling, C.D. Jones and P. Pratt (eds.), Ontario Odonata, Vol. 4 (including observations for the year 2002). Toronto Entomologists’ Association, Toronto Ontario.Reese, M.  2005.  Giant Spreadwing, Archilestes grandis.  Wisconsin Butterflies web site <http://www.wisconsinbutterflies.org/damselflies/species/5>. Accessed 7 Nov 2005.Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. [WDNR] 2004. Aquatic and Terrestrial Resources Inventory, Dragonflies and Damselflies. <http://atriweb.info/Inventory/Odonata/SpeciesDetail.cfm?TaxaID=126>.  Accessed 7 Nov 2005.Westfall, M. J., Jr., and M. L. May.  1996.  Damselflies of North America. Scientific Pub-lishers, Gainesville, FL.Williamson, E. B.  1931.  Archilestes grandis (Ramb.) in Ohio. (Odonata: Agrionidae) Entmol. News 42: 63-64.3Craves: <i>Archilestes Grandis</i> (Rambur) (Odonata: Lestidae): New forPublished by ValpoScholar, 2006

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