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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Damselflies (Zygoptera) » Narrow-winged Damselflies (Coenagrionidae) » Dancers (Argia)
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damselfly - Argia - female
Copyright © 2009 Andrew Williams

damselfly - Argia - Female
Overland Park, Johnson County, Kansas, USA
May 30, 2009
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Contributed by Andrew Williams on 3 June, 2009 - 12:31pm
Last updated 17 January, 2010 - 11:56am

We're thinking nahuana would have some black lines
on the sides of segments 8 and 9, so we're confident this is plana, but Cliff may take a look, so we will wait to see what he says.
… john and jane balaban, 17 January, 2010 - 10:31am login or register to post comments

 
updated picture - bigger, less bright
Just in case it might be helpful, I recropped and posted a bigger version of the pic that wasn't quite as bright. It think some of the details were being blown out.
… Andrew Williams, 17 January, 2010 - 11:57am login or register to post comments

We're struggling to choose between
Argia plana and A. nahuana right now. More later...
… john and jane balaban, 15 January, 2010 - 8:47pm login or register to post comments

 
thanks for the help
I appreciate you working on this.
… Andrew Williams, 16 January, 2010 - 10:37am login or register to post comments

This is another female Argia - ovipositor
again visible under end of abdomen. The color pattern is wrong for moesta though. It might be vivida? See
, but we don't know what other Argia are possible in Kansas.
Kansas School Naturalist lists 10 species here, but not vivida, so you'll have to check the others.
… john and jane balaban, 2 January, 2010 - 12:43pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Damselflies.
… john and jane balaban, 28 December, 2009 - 9:10pm login or register to post comments

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