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Damsel/Dancer - Enallagma carunculatum

Damsel/Dancer - Enallagma carunculatum
Brighton, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada
July 10, 2007
Size: 1 inch app.
I originally thought this was a Blue-ringed Dancer, now I am not so sure. Can anyone comfirm or ID. Thanks

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Damsel/Dancer - Enallagma carunculatum Damsel/Dancer - Enallagma carunculatum

Moved
Moved from Damselflies.

Tule Bluet
This does look like Tule Bluet (Enallagma carunculatum). Although the focus isn't perfect for looking at the cerci in this picture, they do look like what I would expect for Tule. The cerci look too big for Boreal, Northern, or maybe Alkali Bluet. Those three are the only other bluets that might have this much black on the abdomen (aside from the mostly black bluets, of course). The eyespots are too small for Boreal/Northern, too, and the black humeral stripe is too wide for Alkali.

One of the bluets
Not an Argia, an Enallagma. Could be Tule, as suggested, or Familiar, Northern... you need to look at the male's claspers under a hand lens.

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