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The northern bluet is a small damselfly with a length of 1 to 1.6 inches (26 to 40 mm) long. The male is predominantly blue on the sides of its thorax, and the upper side of its abdomen. [3] Its lower abdominal appendages are longer than its upper appendages. The female's body is greenish-yellow to brown color.
The damselfly has a blue and black abdomen, usually with more black than blue.The black humeral stripes are about a half the width of the blue antehumerals.The tule bluet postocular spots are small and triangular; they are separated by a thin occipital bar.
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]
Damselflies are odonates in the suborder Zygoptera. There are 4 superfamilies: Calopterygoidea, Coenagrionoidea, Hemiphlebioidea and Lestoidea. There are 4 superfamilies: Calopterygoidea, Coenagrionoidea, Hemiphlebioidea and Lestoidea.
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.
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"California dragonfly and damselfly (Odonata) database: temporal and spatial distribution of species records collected over the past century". ZooKeys (482): 67–89. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.482.8453. PMC 4337221. PMID 25709531. Lam, Ed (2004). Damselflies of the Northeast. Biodiversity Books. ISBN 978-0975401507.
The damselfly shelters among various plants and algaes in its habitat, including [6] green algae, yellow water lily, hydrilla, lizard's tail, pickerelweed, common cattail, upright sedge, common bladderwort, common duckweed, black willow, orange jewelweed, spotted Joe-pye weed, poison ivy, wild grape, sassafras, common greenbrier, and buttonbush.