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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Damselflies (Zygoptera) » Narrow-winged Damselflies (Coenagrionidae) » American Bluets (Enallagma) » Marsh Bluet (Enallagma ebrium)
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Marsh Bluet,m - Enallagma ebrium - male
Copyright © 2003 Vincent J Hickey

Marsh Bluet,m - Enallagma ebrium - Male
Kennebunk, Maine, USA
June 22, 2003
Enallagra ebrium,male
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Contributed by Vincent J Hickey on 9 May, 2004 - 10:55pm
Last updated 3 September, 2004 - 10:02pm

E. ebrium
E. aspersum would have much more black on the body. We will put this one in the guide under Marsh Bluet. Segment 7 is essentially all black and segment 6 half black with long black tip up the center. See Ed Lam, (1) page 74
… john and jane balaban, 3 September, 2004 - 5:25pm login or register to post comments

A bluet perhaps
But I'm certain it's not Coenagrion puella. Nearctica doesn't list that species for North America, and indeed a web search seems to indicate that's a European species. Ditto for the other one:
… Troy Bartlett, 12 May, 2004 - 11:26pm login or register to post comments

 
Azure damselfly
V J Hickey: tracked it down: C puella is a European name: UK & West Europe. In Odonata of Mass.,images by Blair Nikula & J Trimble, show M&F as Enallagra aspersum, fam Coenagrionidae...Azure Damselfly. (I had no idea how many Odonata sites there are in the UK.)
… Vincent J Hickey, 13 May, 2004 - 7:59pm login or register to post comments

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