Taiga Bluet
Coenagrion resolutum
Male
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Utah Range Map
Shows "U" marking and genitalia
on 2nd segment,
striped legs and close-up of markings on side of
thorax
Appendages
Photo Details - ©Nicky Davis
Located 30 July, 2008,
Midway, Wasatch County, Utah
GPS N. 40º35'
25.47", W. 111º 30' 10.40"
Elevation 8339 feet
Photo taken 31 July,
2008
Male
They have no dark band around eyes
Mostly black above
segment 8 is all blue
Segment 9 is mostly
blue
pale blue to turquoise
green tinged thorax
middle abdominal segments are mostly black
black markings on segment 2 are U-shaped
tear-shaped eye spots on male only
Wide black
stripe in
middle of the dorsal side of thorax, then
turquoise stripe, then
black stripe, then turquoise with just a
trace of another black stripe
Female
Turquoise, tan or green
very large eye spots
Don't have vulvar spine segment 8
Descriptions Per Kathy Biggs "Common
Dragonflies of the Southwest"
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