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Species Enallagma civile - Familiar Bluet

Kiowa or Variable dancer? - Enallagma civile Bluet - Enallagma civile - male Damsel, dancer, perhaps Agia? - Enallagma civile - male Familiar Bluet? - Enallagma civile - male Enallagma annexum (Northern Bluet) ? - Enallagma civile - male Damselfly - Enallagma civile Bluet type? - Enallagma civile - male blue damselfly - Enallagma civile - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Odonata (Dragonflies and Damselflies)
Suborder Zygoptera (Damselflies)
Family Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged Damselflies)
Genus Enallagma (American Bluets)
Species civile (Familiar Bluet)
Other Common Names
Civil Bluet
Size
28-39 mm
See Also
Atlantic Bluet, Enallagma doubledayi--separation requires examination of male cerci or of female mesostigmal plate (on thorax) (1)
Print References
Lam, p. 72 (2)
Abbott, p. 105, photos 13e, 13f (1)
Dunkle, pp. 101-102, figs. 71-72 (3)
Beaton, pp. 96-97 (4)
Works Cited
1.Dragonflies and Damselflies of Texas and the South-Central United States
John C. Abbott. 2005. Princeton University Press.
2.Damselflies of the Northeast
Ed Lam. 2004. Biodiversity Books.
3.Damselflies of Florida, Bermuda, and the Bahamas
Sidney W. Dunkle. 1991. Scientific Publishers.
4.Dragonflies and Damselflies of Georgia and the Southeast
Giff Beaton. 2007. University of Georgia Press.
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by Mike Boone, cotinis, Ted Kropiewnicki
Last updated 15 December, 2007 - 8:45pm

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