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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Damselflies (Zygoptera) » Narrow-winged Damselflies (Coenagrionidae) » Dancers (Argia) » Female moesta or apicalis (Argia Female moesta or apicalis)
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Damselfly with plain thorax - Argia - female
Copyright © 2015 Jerry Friedman

Damselfly with plain thorax - Argia - Female
Española, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, USA
June 11, 2015
Size: About 40 mm
On the shoulder of a road near a pond. There was at least one other that looked very much like this. Both rested a lot and were very approachable. Is it Argia? I was thinking female A. lugens, but the thorax doesn't have the black stripes that I see in the pictures. Teneral?

Edit: Now I'm thinking A. apicalis or moesta.

I could upload blurry pictures of the other one, showing a rather plain face, a similarly almost unmarked thorax, and narrower black stripes on the side of the abdomen, if it would be of any interest.

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Contributed by Jerry Friedman on 11 June, 2015 - 11:10pm
Last updated 6 July, 2015 - 5:52pm

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Moved from Damselflies.
… William Edwards, 6 July, 2015 - 5:52pm login or register to post comments

Argia apicalis or moesta (female)
I would agree with you that it is either A. apicalis or A. moesta.
I would lean toward it being A. apicalis but I'm not sure the end of the abdomen is clear enough to say for sure.

Definitely not A. lugens though - which has a distinctively patterned thorax.
… William Edwards, 21 June, 2015 - 11:05am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks.
Maybe I'll go back to that spot and see if I can get a picture of a male.
… Jerry Friedman, 6 July, 2015 - 6:56pm login or register to post comments

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