Coppery Dancers amongst many Comanche Dancers - Argia cuprea

lol

kinky little buggers, aren't they?

… Ray Simpson, 16 October, 2006 - 10:48pm

From Odonata Central

See Comanche Dancer here and Coppery Dancer here.

… Cliff Bernzweig, 16 October, 2006 - 10:13pm

Both right

Actually, I got an email from John Abbot, who confirmed what both you and Ben said; Coppery and Comanche dancers. I don't guess I can tag these to a particular spps. page since it has both. Thanks for the ID's guys. The Coppery is a new one to add to my list.
Jason

… Jason Penney, 17 October, 2006 - 9:26am

two species

Yeah, not sure how it should work when there is more than one species represented in a photo. I mean, it could really go on both pages. Perhaps an editor can comment.

… Ben Coulter, 17 October, 2006 - 10:32am

It can be posted a second time

and we can put one copy on each page. Otherwise we would suggest putting this on a page for cuprea, since we don't have any images of that species yet. -- As a matter of fact, that's what we will do, and if you decide to post a second copy, we can put that on the Comanche page.

… john and jane balaban, 17 October, 2006 - 8:18pm

How about..

How about some selective cropping? I put them in the ID request since I didn't know where else to put them.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/83698
http://bugguide.net/node/view/83700
http://bugguide.net/node/view/83702
Sorry if thats not the best way but I'm still learning the best ways to use this site.
Jason

… Jason Penney, 17 October, 2006 - 9:48pm

We moved them to the guide for you.

You can go to the guide page for the species and post your image directly there instead of on ID Request. You'll see an ADD IMAGE tab if you go to Argia cuprea, for example, and click on IMAGES. Add image will appear and you can post your image there the same as you did for ID Request. Try it with the next set of images and see how it works!

… john and jane balaban, 18 October, 2006 - 2:57pm

genus Argia

Actually, none of these are bluets. They're dancers (genus Argia). There's two species represented here. My current guess is that the more numerous pale blue ones are Comanche Dancers (Argia barretti), and the two in tandem on the right are Coppery Dancers (Argia cuprea). But I'm not that familiar with the Odonata of this portion of the country, so I'd get a second opinion if I were you.

… Ben Coulter, 16 October, 2006 - 9:52pm

Great shot, Jason

… Jim McClarin, 16 October, 2006 - 9:00pm

Thanks

Thanks Jim.

… Jason Penney, 17 October, 2006 - 9:27am

What do you think of

Neoneura aaroni? Image from Texas A&M

… john and jane balaban, 16 October, 2006 - 8:16pm