Boreal
Bluet
Enallagma
boreale
Male
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Male
Boreal Bluet at
Scipio Lake, Millard County, Utah on
July 23, 2006
Chicken
Creek, Juab
County, Utah on June 11,
2006
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Details - ŠNicky
Davis
Chicken
Creek, Juab
County, Utah
GPS
39° 28' 55.09" N, 111°58' 27.63" W
Elevation 5077 feet.
June 11, 2006.
1., 2. full view
3. abdomen
4. , 5. head and thorax
6. face
7., 8., 9. appendages
Characteristics
- Eyes have large blue,
wavy-edged,
spoon-shaped eyespots with a connecting or
nearly connecting blue line
- Thorax has a wide
black dorsal stripe
- Thorax side stripe is
wider at the
front, pinches toward the back and ends in
an arrow shape
- Dorsal side of abdomen
is more blue
than black on
segments 1-5, segment 6-7 more black
than blue, segments
8-9 are all
blue, segment 10 is blue with a black mark
in the center
- Lower appendages are
longer than the
uppers
- There is a little
shelf on the inside
of each superior appendage (cercus) (the
little gray rounded bumps on
either side of the fuzz) that characterizes
Boreal, whereas Northern
has a shelf like that projecting from the
end, plainly evident from
both top and sides. "Kathy Biggs "Common
Dragonflies of the Southwest"
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