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Tule Bluet (Enallagma carunculatum)
Photo#19097
Copyright © 2005
Kildale
John and Jane are thinking Enallagma. -
Enallagma carunculatum
-
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
June 2, 2005
Caught another one of these haveing a little lunch. May help in the ID'ing. Put that in the title hoping they look in at this one too. Thanks.
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Contributed by
Kildale
on 3 June, 2005 - 7:33pm
Last updated 3 June, 2005 - 9:40pm
You called?!
Looked at Dennis Paulson's pamphlet on the Dragonflies of Washington
(
1
)
and
California dragonflies
. Most Enallagma are more blue than black (civile, etc.). E. anna seems to be south of you and we would think the appendages would be much more obvious. E. clausum has a narrow, pinched thoracic black stripe. So we settled on E. carunculatum. Here is a
photo
(more mature and bluer than yours) and a
scan
which is closer to the color of your immature specimen. Yours is a male, by the way, can clearly see the secondary genitalia under the second abdominal segment. Whew! Had to work hard on that one!
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john and jane balaban
, 3 June, 2005 - 8:38pm
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