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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Damselflies (Zygoptera) » Broad-winged Damselflies (Calopterygidae) » Rubyspots (Hetaerina)
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Bluet - Hetaerina
Copyright © 2018 jezebel445

Bluet - Hetaerina
Moab, Grand County, Utah, USA
June 6, 2008
Size: 2 inches long
We have Enallagma boreale all over the place in the summer here, but this one was dark grey with red accents and red at the base of its wings. Is it Enallagma? If yes, what species? If not, what is he/she?
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Contributed by jezebel445 on 16 September, 2018 - 3:30pm
Last updated 21 September, 2018 - 9:28am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Tony Leukering, 21 September, 2018 - 9:28am login or register to post comments

Thanks!
Thank you all for this!
… jezebel445, 18 September, 2018 - 3:25pm login or register to post comments

Possibly Hetaerina vulnerata, the Canyon Rubyspot
Perhaps the expected flash of red at the wing base is somehow diminished or obscured, but The size, the pincer-like shape of the appendage and the absence of stigma on the forewings suggest to me that this could be a Canyon Rubyspot; Hetaerina vulnerata.
… Paul Kinslow, 16 September, 2018 - 4:07pm login or register to post comments

 
rubyspot records
The only records at Odonata Central for Canyon rubyspot in Utah are in the far SW corner, all but 2 in Washington County. Colorado has no records.
… Larry de March, 16 September, 2018 - 4:19pm login or register to post comments

different family
American rubyspot, male. less than 1.5" long
… Larry de March, 16 September, 2018 - 3:56pm login or register to post comments

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