Blackwater Bluet
Enallagma weewa Boyers, 1927
Blackwater Bluet: https://marylandbiodiversity.com/species/68
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Blackwater Bluet (Enallagma weewa) is a dark-colored bluet of tannic streams and rivers of the Coastal Plain. It is frequently inconspicuous as it perches in the shade of vegetation (Lam, 2004). This species is considered rare in Maryland, and is ranked as S2. In Maryland, it occurs primarily on the Eastern Shore, with a record also from Harford County (Richard Orr's Dragonflies and Damselflies of Maryland and the District of Columbia).

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Enallagma weewa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Suborder: Zygoptera
Family: Coenagrionidae
Genus: Enallagma
Species:
E. weewa
Binomial name
Enallagma weewa
Byers, 1927

Enallagma weewa, the blackwater bluet, is a species of narrow-winged damselfly in the family Coenagrionidae.[1][2] It is found in North America.[2]

The IUCN conservation status of Enallagma weewa is "LC", least concern, with no immediate threat to the species' survival. The population is stable.[3][4][5]

References

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  1. ^ "Enallagma weewa Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
  2. ^ a b "Enallagma weewa Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
  3. ^ "List of Endangered Species". IUCN Red List. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
  4. ^ "Odonata Central". Odonata Central, University of Alabama. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
  5. ^ Ball-Damerow JE, Oboyski PT, Resh VH (2015). "California dragonfly and damselfly (Odonata) database: temporal and spatial distribution of species records collected over the past century". ZooKeys 482: 67-89.
  • Garrison, Rosser W. / Poole, Robert W., and Patricia Gentili, eds. (1997). "Odonata". Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America, vol. 4: Non-Holometabolous Orders, 551-580.
  • Paulson, Dennis R., and Sidney W. Dunkle (1999). "A Checklist of North American Odonata including English name, etymology, type locality, and distribution". Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound, Occasional Paper no. 56, 88.

Further reading

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  • Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.