Vivid Dancer
   Argia vivida
Male
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Summit County

male


Photo Details - ŠNicky Davis
Located June 3, 2006, Butterfield Canyon, Salt Lake County, Utah

GPS  40°29' 73" N    111°57'26"  W. 
Elev. 4470 feet


1.  Full View, lateral
2.  Full View, lateral
3.  Full View, dorsal
4.  Thorax and Head, dorsal
5.  Thorax and Head, lateral
6., 7., 8.  photos of  appendages. 

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9.  male resting by stream - August  23, 2005, Summit, Iron County, Utah   ŠNicky Davis  Utah

Characteristics
  • Small, 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 inches. 
  • Dancers have hair on their legs that is longer than the space between the hairs
  • They like to land on horizontal surfaces rather than foliage
  • Vivid blue with wide, dark, dorsal  stripe on the upper thorax
  • On the sides of the thorax they have black stripes pinched in the middle
  • The middle segments of the abdomen have backward pointing arrows on the sides
  • Segments eight, nine and ten are all blue
  • Females are tan, and patterned like males


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