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Genus Argia - Dancers

Springwater Dancer - Male from Kansas Tallgrass Prairie - Argia plana - male

Sierra Madre Dancer (Argia lacrimans) - Argia lacrimans - male

Another Variable Dancer? - Argia fumipennis

Emma's or Variable Dancer? - Argia emma - male - female

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 Argia (Dancers)

Other Common Names

USE: The Odonata of North America for Common Names

USE: The Odonata of North America for Scientific Names

Identification

Separation of agrioides from nahuana: Nice explanation by Jim Johnson here

Another page on the agrioides/nahuana comparison here

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, Tony-2
Last updated 6 March, 2011 - 10:56am

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