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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Damselflies (Zygoptera)

Suborder Zygoptera - Damselflies

Broad-winged Damselflies · Narrow-winged Damselflies · Spreadwings · Threadtails · Unidentified Naiads and Exuviae

Family Calopterygidae - Broad-winged Damselflies
River Jewelwing - Calopteryx aequabilis - male River Jewelwing Damselfly with prey - Calopteryx aequabilis - male Unknown for ID - Calopteryx maculata - male Ebony Jewelwing Male - Green view - Calopteryx maculata - male Appalachian Jewelwing - Calopteryx angustipennis - male Damselfly: American Rubyspot - Hetaerina americana - male American Rubyspot - Hetaerina americana Damselfly - Hetaerina americana - male

Family Coenagrionidae - Narrow-winged Damselflies
Violet/variable dancer - Argia fumipennis - male Red Damsel - Telebasis byersi Tonto Dancer - Argia tonto - male Damselfly ID - Enallagma vesperum Damselfly - Enallagma Pacific Forktail - Ischnura cervula - male Tonto Dancer - Argia tonto - male Unidentified Insect 111 - Ischnura hastata - male

Family Lestidae - Spreadwings
Spreadwing - Lestes - male Plateau Spreadwing (Lestes alacer) - Lestes alacer Northern spreadwing lestes disjunctus - Lestes disjunctus - female Great Spreadwing - Archilestes grandis - male - female Sweetflag Spreadwing in New Brunswick - Lestes forcipatus - male Great Spreadwing - nymph - Archilestes grandis Damselfly for ID - Lestes rectangularis Chalky Spreadwing - Lestes sigma

Family Protoneuridae - Threadtails
Amelia's Threadtail and reflection - Neoneura amelia - male Amelia's Threadtails in tandem flight - Neoneura amelia - male - female Amelia's Threadtails in tandem oviposition - Neoneura amelia - male - female Coral-fronted Threadtail and reflection - Neoneura aaroni - male Neoneura aaroni - Coral-fronted Threadtail - Neoneura aaroni - male - female Neoneura aaroni - Coral-fronted Threadtail - Neoneura aaroni - male - female

Unidentified Naiads and Exuviae
Damselfly larva Damselfly larvae Damsel nymph Damselfly larva Damselfly larva Narrow-winged damselfly Narrow-winged damselfly Damsel fly nymph


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