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Status
Stream Bluet (Enallagma exsulans) is an abundant and widespread, dark-colored bluet of creeks and rivers. This damselfly can be very numerous in good habitat (Lam, 2004). Stream Bluet is abundant in most of Maryland, and has been recorded from most counties (Richard Orr's Dragonflies and Damselflies of Maryland and the District of Columbia).
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Odonata |
Suborder: | Zygoptera |
Family: | Coenagrionidae |
Genus: | Enallagma |
Species: | E. exsulans
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Binomial name | |
Enallagma exsulans (Hagen, 1861)
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The stream bluet (Enallagma exsulans) is a species of American bluet damselflies in the family Coenagrionidae. Its length is 29–37 mm. Many bluet species prefer ponds and lakes; the stream bluet as its name implies is most at home along moving waters. It can be found along small to medium-sized rivers. It is occasionally found at lakes too. In many species of damselflies the males have a blue tip to the abdomen. Enallagma exsulans is one of those less common cases where the female, too, has a blue abdominal tip. Summertime is the best time to look for stream bluets.
Distribution
[edit]- United States: (Alabama • Arkansas • Colorado • Connecticut • Delaware • Florida • Georgia • Iowa • Illinois • Indiana • Kansas • Kentucky • Louisiana • Massachusetts • Maryland • Maine • Michigan • Minnesota • Mississippi • Nebraska • North Carolina • New Hampshire • New Jersey • Ohio • Pennsylvania • Rhode Island • South Carolina • Tennessee • Texas • Vermont • Wisconsin • West Virginia)
- Canada: (Manitoba • New Brunswick • Ontario • Quebec)
Similar species
[edit]Stream bluets look similar to turquoise bluets.
References
[edit]- ^ Paulson, D. R. (2017). "Enallagma exsulans". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T165092A65833181. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T165092A65833181.en. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- Enallagma exsulans, Stream Bluet, Family Coenagrionidae
- Enallagma exsulans (Stream Bluet)
- NHL Stream Bluet
- Lam, E. (2004). Damselflies of the Northeast. Forest Hills, NY:Biodiversity Books. p. 64.
- DuBois, Bob (2005). Damselflies of the North Woods. Duluth, MN: Kollath-Stensaas Publ. p. 88-89.