Tramea calverti (Muttkowski, 1910)

Rogers, D. Christopher & Cruz-Rivera, Edwin, 2021, A preliminary survey of the inland aquatic macroinvertebrate biodiversity of St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, Journal of Natural History 55 (13 - 14), pp. 799-850 : 822

Tramea calverti (Muttkowski, 1910)

Adults are large, red, with the hindwing bearing a longitudinal brown-red basal spot, and the thorax is red to brown with two oblique, white bars on each side. Tramea calverti was almost as widespread in our surveys across St. Thomas as was T. abdominalis , but we never found it where there was brackish water or mangrove forests. It was not reported by Donnelly (2002), but Sibley (1999) reported this species colonising Guana and Anegada islands and speculated that it could have jumped to other British Virgin Islands as well. It was found at two sites in Puerto Rico ( Ramírez et al. 2020), but this is the first record of the species from St. Thomas.