Species Coenagrion angulatum - Prairie Bluet

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Range · Internet References

Prairie Bluet ? - Coenagrion angulatum - female

Prairie Bluet - Coenagrion angulatum - male

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 Coenagrion (Eurasian Bluets)

Species angulatum (Prairie Bluet)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

First described in 1912 by Edmund Murton Walker as Coenagrion angulatum

Range

From British Columbia in Canada and Montana in the US to Ontario in Canada and Minnesota and Iowa in the US. Also reported from Alaska and the Northwest Territories

Internet References

The Canadian Etomologist, v.45, n.9, pp.256-259 Walker's original description of the species.

Bill Mauffrey's Distribution Summary of North American Zygoptera

University of Alberta Entomology Collection- Species Page

Contributed by Chuck Entz on 27 March, 2010 - 3:51pm
Last updated 27 March, 2010 - 5:50pm

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