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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Damselflies (Zygoptera) » Narrow-winged Damselflies (Coenagrionidae) » Dancers (Argia) » Powdered Dancer (Argia moesta)
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Damselfly - Argia moesta
Copyright © 2006 Steven Price

Damselfly - Argia moesta
Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
August 4, 2006
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Contributed by Steven Price on 8 August, 2006 - 6:40am
Last updated 9 October, 2006 - 10:28am

Moved
Moved from Damselflies.
… john and jane balaban, 9 October, 2006 - 10:28am login or register to post comments

Another place to look...
Is the guide pages for damselflies here at BugGuide, if you haven't already. While the number of images is daunting at first, this damsel is different enough from the average that you might well spot it.

Another site for identifying Odes is Odonata Central:

http://odonatacentral.bfl.utexas.edu/

If you go to the checklist link at the top of the page, you can then check your state, and then your county, to see what species have been found there...most will have an image attached (the camera symbol) so you can see what they look like.

Lovely image, by the way.
… E Moon, 23 August, 2006 - 8:33am login or register to post comments

 
Damselfly
Thank you (especially for the link, that sounds awesome!). Actually, I'd forgotten I posted this image. This has been identified (by somebody outside of the bugguide community) as a female Powdered Dancer (Argia moesta).
… Steven Price, 23 August, 2006 - 9:14am login or register to post comments

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