I found this freshly-emerged male Laura's Clubtail Stylurus laurae resting on a shrub next to a riffly section of water along Big Creek at the Scenic Area in Sam Houston National Forest, San Jacinto County, Texas in late May 2010. After taking a few photos, I gently caught it in a net and left it in there overnight to start the drying-out process without damaging the wings. It was delivered alive and in good condition to John Abbott at UT, as there are currently no Texas specimens held in the state (prior to this individual, the only examples of laurae from Texas in any collections are those reared from larvae by Nick Donnelly in the late Sixties):
Another freshly-emerged male from the same location on
May 23, 2012:
