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Tule Bluet (Enallagma carunculatum)
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Copyright © 2007
Naomi Smith
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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Contributed by
Naomi Smith
on 11 July, 2007 - 8:40am
Last updated 2 August, 2007 - 6:35pm
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john and jane balaban
, 2 August, 2007 - 6:35pm
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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.
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Nick Block
, 15 July, 2007 - 10:41am
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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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Julie Craves
, 12 July, 2007 - 9:24pm
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