Damselflies (Vivid Dancer)

Vivid Dancer

Argia vivida

Native
Status: Common

Size: small/medium

Length - 30 - 40 mm

Eye color - male: blue with large dark eye spots; female: tan with large dark eye spots

Face color - male: blue female: tan

Thorax color - male: blue & black ; top black stripe urn shaped; side stripe tapers at rear

Abdomen color - black & blue; black arrows on side near front segments 3-5; segments 2-4 black band at rear; segments 8-10 all blue; immatures - whitish gray; females; tan & gray (sometimes colored like male)

Stigma color - light brown

Appendages - black

Habitat - seeps, streams

Behavior - wanders

Flight period - year round - during any prolonged warm spell 

Range - eastern British Columbia and Alberta south to Texas, New Mexico, and Baja California

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