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Coenagrion is a genus of damselflies in the family Coenagrionidae, [2] commonly called the Eurasian Bluets (although three species are found in North America: Coenagrion angulatum, Coenagrion interrogatum, and Coenagrion resolutum [3]). Species of Coenagrion are generally medium-sized, brightly coloured damselflies. [4]
Anomisma is a genus of damselflies in the family Coenagrionidae. ... Lam, Ed (2004). Damselflies of the Northeast. Biodiversity Books. ISBN ...
Enallagma cyathigerum (common blue damselfly or common bluet) is a species found mainly between latitudes 40°N and 72°N; [2] It is widely distributed in the Palearctic, common in all European countries (including Portugal, Spain, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Poland, etc.) and in Asia in Turkey, Iran ...
The ebony jewelwing (Calopteryx maculata) is a species of broad-winged damselfly. One of about 150 species of Calopterygidae, it is found in the eastern U.S. and southeastern Canada, ranging west to the Great Plains. Other common names include black-winged damselfly. [1]
Lestes vigilax, the swamp spreadwing, is a damselfly of the genus Lestes. It grows between 42 and 55 mm long. It grows between 42 and 55 mm long. It ranges from eastern North America west to Minnesota , Oklahoma , and Texas , and to Georgia and South Carolina .
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The adult damselflies prey on small flying insects, caught using their legs like a basket to scoop the prey up while flying, or insects taken from leaves. Damselfly nymphs are aquatic, and prey on small aquatic insects or other aquatic larvae. A male can try to interfere with a mating pair, by attaching itself to the mating male.
Damselflies are odonates in the suborder Zygoptera. There are 4 superfamilies: Calopterygoidea, Coenagrionoidea, Hemiphlebioidea and Lestoidea. Subcategories. This ...