Update: two more Texas records added at the bottom:
This Ruff Philomachus pugnax was photographed west of Raymondville (490 and 1425), Willacy county, Texas on September 07, 2008 having been relocated there earlier in the day by Randy Pinkston:
This was the first view I had (and the most frequent!); the prominent dull "soft" scaled effect is distinctive:
Note the orange legs:
This individual was at El Franco Lee Park in Houston, harris county, Texas on December 10, 2011:
This presumed alternate-aspect female was at Village Creek Drying Beds, Tarrant county, Texas on April 29, 1995:
