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Species Enallagma sulcatum - Golden Bluet

FloridaBluet_Enallagma_sp01012009_ARBG_5340 - Enallagma sulcatum - 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 sulcatum (Golden Bluet)

Identification

Per Paulson (1)

Enallagma vesperum is identically colored but has narrower black thoracic stripes than E. sulcatum.

E. sulcatum has broad black thoracic stripes in both sexes.

See Also

Enallagma vesperum

Enallagma signatum

Enallagma pollutum

Works Cited

1.	Dragonflies and damselflies of the East D. Paulson. 2012. Princeton University Press. 576 pp.

Contributed by William Edwards on 11 January, 2013 - 1:31pm
Last updated 18 January, 2013 - 9:41am

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