Hello John and Jane. I do not know if their have been occurrences in Ohio and I do not know how to find out. I used the Paulson guide which puts this damselfly at the extreme ( and then a little more ! ) southeast of the range in the quide. This being an immature should I be using adult images to try to id this damselfly ( I have been using the Lam guide of Northeast damselflies ). Thank again for your help and time.

are the same as the adult images you have in Lam (which is an excellent resource for you) but just not bright blue yet. So you can trust the patterns but not the colors. We would assume Ohio has an Odonata Society or an Odonata Survey that you could access online. We notice we get a ton of hits when we google Odonata Ohio. We seem to remember we once had a wonderful Ohio Odonata book. Wonder what happened to that??? You may also want to look into Curry's Dragonflies of Indiana, which we think is a wonderful book.

Hello Jon and Jane,
I also use the guide of Northeast Ohio by Larry Rosche. I went to the O.O.S. site ( thanks for the lead ) and River Bluet is not listed in Ohio as far as I can tell. Thanks once again for your help and time.

What does it mean that this submission was moved from Dragonflies and Damselflies ? Thanks for your time, Bugguide is invaluable !

into the guide to the Order Odonata page. We then sorted those images into Anisoptera and Zygoptera and moved the images deeper into the guide. Volunteers and experts will then look at them and move them still deeper, we would hope all the way to a species page. Several are communicating right now on all the images that are paused on the Anisoptera page. Those should be cleared up in a couple of days. We don't know if attention will be turned to Zygoptera or to some of the Families of Anisoptera. Unfortunately, especially with the troublesome Enallagma, it can be a slow process.