Icarus Darner (Coryphaeshna
apeora)
EDIT 8/5/2018: with Mike Rickard's well photographed records from 2018 (and the 2012 images from his files), my record and Martin Reid's records have now been confirmed at the 1st and 2nd US records for this species. Mike's 2018 record is here: OC 485551. In addition, Martin Reid was able to add 2 additional records for 2018: OC 486252 and OC 486260
I saw this dragonfly on 7/15/09 on
Bullhead Creek about 3 miles East of Vance in
TEXAS: Real Co; White Ranch River Resort, ca 3 mi E of Vance - Female - 15 July
2009
see Paulson, D.R. 1994. "Two New Species of Coryphaeschna From Middle
America, and a Discussion of the Red Species of the Genus (Anisoptera: Aeshnidae)".
Odonatologica 23(4): 379-398. To read the species description and form
your own conclusions, you can find a pdf of this paper
HERE.
For comparison photos of this species, see:
http://gallery.cs.umb.edu/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=383445 (very similar
IMHO)
http://www2.ups.edu/biology/museum/CoryphaeschnaF.jpg
And to compare to the similar C. diapyra, see:
http://gallery.cs.umb.edu/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=383451