Species Enallagma aspersum - Azure Bluet

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Azure Bluet - Enallagma aspersum - male - female

Azure Bluet - Enallagma aspersum - female

Bluet? and if so which one? - Enallagma aspersum

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Odonata (Dragonflies and Damselflies)

Suborder Zygoptera (Damselflies)

Family Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged Damselflies)

Genus Enallagma (American Bluets)

Species aspersum (Azure Bluet)

Numbers

One of 35 Nearctic species in the genus.

Size

27-34 mm

Identification

Male with very large blue eyespots. Segment 10 is black on top, while segments 8 and 9 are blue on top. Segment 7 is largely blue, but is black toward the front, and there is a characteristic pattern where the blue gives way to black.

Female with unmistakeable paired blue spots on segments 7 and 8. See Ed lam (1) page 58

Range

Most of the Eastern United States, also a disjunct population in Montana. In Canada, reported from Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia.

Habitat

Shallow ponds, lakes, and bogs, usually fishless.

Iowa Odes

Dragonflies and Damselflies of West Virginia

Works Cited

1.	Damselflies of the Northeast By Ed Lam

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 3 September, 2004 - 6:33pm
Additional contributions by Stephen Cresswell
Last updated 5 July, 2005 - 3:42pm

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