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looking for info on leps from the hill country, bandera county, real county, uvalde county & possible medina county. has any found any between tarpley & utopia or off of 337 between utopia & leakey

Have you looked at the bibliography records in "Dixons" book? Sigtings are very rare in counties east of Edwards County.

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OK, this is going back a FEW years(like 31 years). I lived in Hondo (Medina Co.) from 1975 to 1977. During that two year period I collectd in the area that you are asking about. I found 2 lepidus during this period of time. One as a DOR just south of Tarpley on 462 and just inside the Medina Co. line. I also collected a live lepidus in Real County near the Bandera Co. line on 337 between Leakey and Vanderpool.

The DOR from Medina Co. is the only one that I have any personal knowledge of being found in Medina Co. I know there are a couple of literature records from Medina County, but I collected there on a pretty regular basis during those two years and that was the only one that I turned up in Medina Co. I had a rancher bring me one that he had picked up in the vicinity of the town of Medina in Bandera Co. but I don't have a more specific location than that one.

Those counties that you asked about are at the far east fringe of their range and from my personal experience, you are probably going to have to put in a good deal of time and effort to find them in those localities...especially Medina Co.
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Gerald Keown
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