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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Damselflies (Zygoptera) » Narrow-winged Damselflies (Coenagrionidae) » Dancers (Argia) » Paiute Dancer (Argia alberta)
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Damselfly - Argia alberta - male
Copyright © 2019 Tom Bentley

Damselfly - Argia alberta - Male
Coachella Valley Preserve, Riverside County, California, USA
April 1, 2019
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Contributed by Tom Bentley on 15 September, 2019 - 8:12pm
Last updated 8 August, 2023 - 11:13am

Moved
Moved from Vivid Dancer.
… Tom Bentley, 8 August, 2023 - 11:13am login or register to post comments

A. alberta
This is Argia alberta, Paiute Dancer, not A. vivida. The abdomen is basically entirely dark dorsally and the humeral stripe is forked. Please consider moving this image or giving me reasoning for the A. vivida ID. Thank you!
… Mikie Green, 12 May, 2022 - 5:47pm login or register to post comments

 
Dates
Check the date ranges. Never seen that early in California.
… Tom Bentley, 13 May, 2022 - 9:02am login or register to post comments

 
Date ranges -
A. alberta flies in CA from April - November (Paulson, 2009), same per Kathy Biggs.
Oh, there's an early flight date from February 2008, Coachella Valley Preserve, Riverside County: Kathy Biggs site
Also, I do see the prominent & forked dark humeral stripe, unforked or "rarely forked" in vivida. And then we have the almost all dark abdominal dorsum. Does look more like alberta to me.
… Hartmut Wisch, 4 August, 2023 - 3:17pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Narrow-winged Damselflies.
… Tom Bentley, 16 September, 2019 - 10:57pm login or register to post comments

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