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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) » Tule Bluet (Enallagma carunculatum)
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Could be Tule Bluet, Santa Cruz CA - Enallagma carunculatum
Copyright © 2007 Arthur Scott Macmillan

Could be Tule Bluet, Santa Cruz CA - Enallagma carunculatum
Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County, California, USA
August 18, 2007

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Contributed by Arthur Scott Macmillan on 20 August, 2007 - 1:16pm
Last updated 16 September, 2014 - 3:41pm

Moved
Moved from American Bluets.
… john and jane balaban, 12 July, 2008 - 12:56pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Damselflies.
… john and jane balaban, 15 September, 2007 - 9:00pm login or register to post comments

Probably not Tule
I would agree that the amount of blue on S3 is likely too much for a Tule Bluet. The cerci, although it is very hard to make out any real detail on them, do not seem right for Tule, either. I think Familiar or Arroyo Bluets are better fits for this bug, but I'm not sure it's identifiable beyond that. Could you post a crop of the cerci? There might be enough detail in a higher-res view of them to ID it. I'm not sure what you mean by a dorsal projection on S2. I see the black spot of S2 and what seems to be light reflecting off a wing vein just above it...
… Nick Block, 21 August, 2007 - 5:08pm login or register to post comments

 
A little more detail...
Nick, I don't have very high resolution originals, 1280x1024 only - 3 shots (the one shown, and two more. I was playing around with the 3 to try to see if there was any detail to be found, and will add the result.

I post the other two shots, too.

Yes, what looked like a projection has to be the light.

BTW - I guess I may have deleted the picture with the pointers accidentally. When I pressed "add image" while on in it, the picture seems to have been replaced not added. I'm not going to repost it. I agree with your explanation.
… Arthur Scott Macmillan, 23 August, 2007 - 2:11pm login or register to post comments

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