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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)
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Damsel - Enallagma
Copyright © 2009 Stephen Gingold

Damsel - Enallagma
Amherst, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
May 27, 2009
Size: +/-2"

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Contributed by Stephen Gingold on 29 May, 2009 - 4:39am
Last updated 16 January, 2010 - 9:32am

Moved
Moved from Narrow-winged Damselflies.
… john and jane balaban, 16 January, 2010 - 9:32am login or register to post comments

Probably Turquoise
The pale shoulder stripe is way wider than it should be on weewa or exsulans. I also haven't heard of weewa in MA, although it's possible.
… Cliff Bernzweig, 15 January, 2010 - 11:15pm login or register to post comments

We only see three female Enallagma with this
color pattern on the top of segments 9 and 10, exsulans, divagans, and weewa. None would be 2 inches, but the Blackwater, weewa, would be long and have this long slender look to it. It's not a species that we see, so don't know it well enough to have a good feel for it. Did you take images in a large format so that you could crop and post just the head or just the end of the abdomen?
… john and jane balaban, 13 January, 2010 - 8:06pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks John, Jane and Cliff.
I've added two more images. They are not different, but the file sizes are large enough that I can show decent crops to give you a better look at the head and end segments.
… Stephen Gingold, 18 January, 2010 - 1:47pm login or register to post comments

Moved
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… Stephen Gingold, 10 June, 2009 - 6:19am login or register to post comments

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Comments with attached image. Thanks for any help.
… Stephen Gingold, 29 May, 2009 - 4:40am login or register to post comments

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