- American Rubyspot
- Amethyst Dancer
- Antillean Saddlebags
- Apache Dancer
- Apache Spiketail
- Arizona Snaketail
- Arroyo Bluet
- Arroyo Darner
- Aztec Dancer
- Band-winged Meadowhawk
- Black Meadowhawk
- Black Saddlebags
- Black Setwing
- Black-and-White Damsel
- Black-fronted Forktail
- Black-winged Dragonlet
- Blue Dasher
- Blue-eyed Darner
- Blue-fronted Dancer
- Blue-ringed Dancer
- Boreal Bluet
- California Dancer
- California Spreadwing
- Canyon Rubyspot
- Cardinal Meadowhawk
- Carmine Skimmer
- Checkered Setwing
- Citrine Forktail
- Claw-tipped Bluet
- Comanche Skimmer
- Common Green Darner
- Common Whitetail
- Desert Firetail
- Desert Forktail
- Desert Shadowdamsel
- Desert Whitetail
- Double-striped Bluet
- Dusky Dancer
- Eastern Amberwing
- Eastern Pondhawk
- Eight-spotted Skimmer
- Emerald Spreadwing
- Familiar Bluet
- Fiery-eyed Dancer
- Filigree Skimmer
- Flame Skimmer
- Four-spotted Pennant
- Four-spotted Skimmer
- Giant Darner
- Gray Sanddragon
- Great Pondhawk
- Great Spreadwing
- Harkness' Dancer
- Hoary Skimmer
- Kiowa Dancer
- Lavender Dancer
- Malachite Darner
- Marl Pennant
- Mayan Setwing
- Mexican Amberwing
- Mexican Forktail
- Narrow-striped Forceptail
- Neon Skimmer
- Neotropical Bluet
- Northern Bluet
- Northern Spreadwing
- Pacific Forktail
- Paddle-tailed Darner
- Painted Damsel
- Paiute Dancer
- Pale Snaketail
- Pale-faced Clubskimmer
- Persephone's Darner
- Pin-tailed Pondhawk
- Plains Forktail
- Plateau Dragonlet
- Plateau Spreadwing
- Powdered Dancer
- Rambur's Forktail
- Red Rock Skimmer
- Red Saddlebags
- Red-tailed Pennant
- Riffle Darner
- Roseate Skimmer
- Russet-tipped Clubtail
- Sabino Dancer
- Serpent Ringtail
- Sierra Madre Dancer
- Slough Amberwing
- Sooty Dancer
- Spine-tipped Dancer
- Spot-tailed Dasher
- Spot-winged Glider
- Spot-winged Meadowhawk
- Spotted Spreadwing
- Springwater Dancer
- Straw-colored Sylph
- Striped Meadowhawk
- Striped Saddlebags
- Swift Setwing
- Taiga Bluet
- Tarascan Dancer
- Tezpi Dancer
- Thornbush Dasher
- Tonto Dancer
- Tule Bluet
- Turquoise-tipped Darner
- Twelve-spotted Skimmer
- Variable Dancer
- Variable Darner
- Variegated Meadowhawk
- Vivid Dancer
- Wandering Glider
- Western Forktail
- Western Pondhawk
- Western Red Damsel
- Western/Eastern Pondhawk Intermediates
- White-belted Ringtail
- White-tailed Sylph
- Widow Skimmer
- Yaqui Dancer
Archilestes grandis
Common Name
Great Spreadwing
Family
Spreadwings (Lestidae)
Distribution map from southwestdragonflies.net
Great Spreadwing, Male, Spur Cross Conservation Area, Maricopa, AZ, 20 November 2010
Great Spreadwing, Male, Spur Cross Conservation Area, Maricopa, AZ, 18 November 2011
Great Spreadwing, Male, Oak Flat Campground, Maricopa, AZ, 24 September 2008
Great Spreadwing, Male, Morgan City Wash, Maricopa, AZ, 8 November 2008
Great Spreadwing, Male parasitized with mites, Seven Springs, Maricopa, AZ, 10 July 2010
Great Spreadwing, Female, Kelvin Bridge, Pinal, AZ, 22 November 2008
Great Spreadwing, Female, Spur Cross Conservation Area, Maricopa, AZ, 20 November 2010
Great Spreadwing, Female, West Fork of Oak Creek, Coconino, AZ, 5 October 2008
Great Spreadwing, Female, West Fork of Oak Creek, Coconino, AZ, 5 October 2008
Great Spreadwing, Immature female, Oak Flat, Pinal, AZ, 18 June 2011
Great Spreadwing, Pair in tandem, California Gulch, Santa Cruz, AZ, 30 October 2010
Great Spreadwing, Female ovipositing, Spur Cross Conservation Area, Maricopa, 20 November 2010. Insert shows detail of ovipositor.
Great Spreadwing, Male appendages (dorsal view), Patagonia Lake, Santa Cruz, AZ, 25 September 2010