Blue, Green, or Brown Females Species Group

Classification · Identification

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Odonata (Dragonflies and Damselflies)

Suborder Zygoptera (Damselflies)

Family Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged Damselflies)

Genus Enallagma (American Bluets)

No Taxon Blue, Green, or Brown Females Species Group

Identification

Many of the Enallagma have blue, green, or brown sided females with black dorsal abdomen. These can be ID'd by the males attending them or by magnified views of the mesostigmal plates. These females could be E. anna, boreale, carunculatum, civile, cyathigerum, doubledayi, ebrium, hageni, or laterale. An expert may be able to sort some of these out by range, eyespots, or occipital bars.

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 12 July, 2008 - 1:09pm

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