Is that really the only species with such eyes? I know P. lydia is staggeringly abundant through most of the US, but Bentsen is well south of the species' regular distribution. At the time that I took these photos, I think there were only one or two records for the entire county, none at all for the park! An adult or two were found in the park a year or so after this, but for me to have stumbled across this species in this location just while casually dip-netting at random would be like winning the lottery...

After taking a second look at the photos, I would say that it is actually one of the two species of Orthemis that occur down there. Plathemis and Orthemis really are the only two genera with eyes like that. I think the abdominal appendages are too long for Plathemis and the lateral spines on segments 8 and 9 are too short (or maybe absent altogether).

Excellent, thank you! Given the habitat preferences of the adults, I would bet on it having been O. ferruginea, as I cannot recall having seen O. discolor frequenting the wetland where I caught this critter. But maybe I'll place it at the genus level without further specification, just to be on the safe side. O. discolor was a regular visitor at a much smaller wetland that was perhaps a quarter-mile away...