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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Damselflies (Zygoptera) » Narrow-winged Damselflies (Coenagrionidae) » American Bluets (Enallagma) » Skimming Bluet (Enallagma geminatum)
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damselfly - Enallagma geminatum - female
Copyright © 2017 Martin R Lucas

damselfly - Enallagma geminatum - Female
North Judson, Starke County, Indiana, USA
May 26, 2017
Photographed in a sand prairie garden at my home in North Judson Indiana - not particularly near any body of water. It was the only damselfly I saw in the area, and possibly seemed to like to perch on Asclepias tuberosa leaves. Maybe a bluet?

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damselfly - Enallagma geminatum - female damselfly - Enallagma geminatum - female
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Contributed by Martin R Lucas on 31 May, 2017 - 6:11am
Last updated 1 June, 2017 - 10:41am

Enallagma geminatum (female)
Moved from Narrow-winged Damselflies.
… William Edwards, 1 June, 2017 - 10:40am login or register to post comments

 
thanks!
thank you William, I appreciate you sharing your expertise.
… Martin R Lucas, 1 June, 2017 - 10:59am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John S. Ascher, 1 June, 2017 - 5:37am login or register to post comments

More like a Purplet
Looks like a Purple Bluet, Enallagma cardenium
http://bugguide.net/node/view/43624/bgpage
… Sage McKeand, 31 May, 2017 - 10:32am login or register to post comments

 
but...
It really does look similar, but the site (NW Indiana) is far to the north of the range of E. cardenium, so it seems unlikely to me.
… Martin R Lucas, 31 May, 2017 - 11:55am login or register to post comments

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