Damselflies (Arroyo Bluet)

Arroyo Bluet

Enallagma praevarum

Native 

Status: Uncommon

Size: small

Length - 29 - 37 mm

Eye color - male: blue; female: tan

Face color - male: blue; female: tan

Thorax color - male: blue with top stripe wide and black; female: tan / black

Abdomen color - male: 3rd segment greater than 50% black; segments 8 & 9 blue female: 

Stigma color - dark

Appendages - upper forked; top fork longest

Habitat - lakes, ponds, streams, pools of rivers

Flight period - early March - end of December

Range - widespread

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