Species Argia vivida - Vivid Dancer

Classification · Identification · Range · Habitat

Dancers of some kind? - Argia vivida - male - female

First Thought: Spreadwing. Second Thought: Just Rumpled. - Argia vivida

Damselfly in identity crisis - Argia vivida - male

Vivid Dancer Argia vivida - Argia vivida - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Odonata (Dragonflies and Damselflies)

Suborder Zygoptera (Damselflies)

Family Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged Damselflies)

Genus Argia (Dancers)

Species vivida (Vivid Dancer)

Identification

Species description at OdonataCentral (U. of Texas).

Range

Western Canada (BC), and Western USA ( US range map; U. of Puget Sound).

Habitat

Streams and seeps; hot and cold springs in Western Canada.

Threatened status in BC, Canada, due to habitat loss or degradation. See information given by the Royal BC Museum.

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 20 July, 2005 - 5:39pm
Additional contributions by Hartmut Wisch
Last updated 26 October, 2006 - 2:20pm

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