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coenagrionidae

  1. Variable Dancer (male).jpg

    Variable Dancer (male).jpg

    Variable Dancer (Argia fumipennis: Coenagrionidae) male. 2.9-3.4 cm (1.1-1.3 in) long.
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  2. Orange Bluet and Familiar Bluet

    Orange Bluet and Familiar Bluet

    Orange Bluet (Enallagma signatum: Coenagrionidae) 2.8-3.8 cm (1.1-1.5 in) long) Male. Familiar Blue (Enallagma civile: Coenagrionidae) 2.9-3.9 cm (1.1-1.5 in) long. Male. Old Travis B. Bryan Municipal Golf Course. Margin of country club lake at ca. 91 m (ca. 300 ft) elevation. Bryan, Brazos...
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  3. Orange Bluet (male and female)

    Orange Bluet (male and female)

    Orange Bluet (Enaliagma signatum: Coenagrionidae) 2.8-3.8 cm (1.1-1.5 in) long. In tandem. Old Travis B. Bryan Municipal Golf Course converted to a city park. Margin of country club lake at ca. 91 m (ca. 300 ft) elevation. Bryan, Brazos County, Texas, USA. Post Oak Savannah Vegetational Area.
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  4. Sparkling Jewelwing, Blue-ringed Dancer

    Sparkling Jewelwing, Blue-ringed Dancer

    Sparkling Jewelwing (Calopteryx dimidiata: Calopterygidae) left. 2.9-4.0 cm (1.1-1.6 in)long. Blue-ringed Dancer (Argia sedula: Coenagrionidae) right. 2.9-3.4 cm (1.1-1.3 in) long. Wolf Pen Park, College Station, Brazos County, Texas, USA. Urban park setting with a few remnant patches of woods...
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  5. Kiowa Dancer

    Kiowa Dancer

    Kiowa Dancer (Argia immunda: Coenagrionidae) 3.3-3.8 cm (1.3-1.5 in) long. Estero Llano Grande State Park, Weslaco, Hidalgo County, Texas, USA. South Texas Plains Vegetational Area. Resaca thornbush woodlands with scattered ponds and depressions at ca. 22 m (72 ft) elevation.
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  6. Familiar Bluet

    Familiar Bluet

    Familiar Bluet (Enallagma civile: Coenagrionidae) 2.9-3.9 cm (1.1-1.5 in) long. Mother Neff State Park, Coryell County, Texas, USA. Situated in the Lampasas Cut Plain Vegetational Area. Open prairies in juniper/oak covered hills. Elevation ranges from 186-241 m (610-790 ft).
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  7. Blue-ringed Dancer

    Blue-ringed Dancer

    Blue-ringed Dancer (Argia sedula: Coenagrionidae) 2.9-3.4 cm (1.1-1.3 in) long. Camelot Park, Bryan, Brazos County, Texas, USA. Perched on Texas Frogfruit ((Phyla nodiflora: Verbenaceae) . Open park setting with scattered oaks, pecan and juniper at ca. 94 m (310 ft) elevation.
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  8. Desert Firetail

    Desert Firetail

    Desert Firetail (Telebasis salsa: Coenagrionidae) 2.4-2.9 cm (0.9-1.1 in) long. Brightly colored but hard to see this species due to its small size and it habit of sitting still. Research Park, College Station, Brazos County, Texas, USA. Open post oak savannah with several lochs or dams...
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  9. Double-striped Bluet

    Double-striped Bluet

    Double-striped Bluet (Enallagma basins: Coenagrionidae) 2.1-2.8 cm (0.83-1.10 in) long. This tiny damselfly is easily overlooked. Camelot Park, Bryan, Brazos County, Texas, USA. Small flower garden in an open park setting with scattered oaks, pecan and juniper at ca. 94 m (310 ft) elevation.
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  10. Fragile Forktail (male)

    Fragile Forktail (male)

    Fragile Forktail (Ischnura posita: Coenagrionidae) Male, species sexually dimorphic. 2.1-2.9 cm (0.83-1.14 in) long. Lucy Park, Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA. Manicured park in the floodplain of the Wichita River with small remnant riparian forest at ca. 283 m (928 ft) elevation...
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  11. Attenuated Bluet

    Attenuated Bluet

    Attenuated Bluet (Enallagma daeckii: Coenagrionidae) 3.5-4.7 cm ( 1.4-1.9 in) long. Photographed in Central Park, College Station, Brazos County, Texas, USA. Margin of a man-made pond in a disturbed Post Oak Savannah at ca. 82 m (270 ft) elevation.
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  12. Powdered Dancer

    Powdered Dancer

    Powdered Dancer (Argia moesta: Coenagrionidae) Total length 3.7-4.2 cm (1.5-1.7 in). Rivers Bend Park at Stillhouse Hollow Lake, Salado, Bell County, Texas, USA. Lakeside, open park with scattered hackberry and ash juniper over limestone hills at ca. 195 m (640 ft) elevation.
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  13. Rambur's Forktail (female)

    Rambur's Forktail (female)

    Ramburs Forktail (Ischnura ramburii: Coenagrionidae) This species ranges in size from 2.7-3.6 cm (1.1-1.4 in) long. Female, species sexually dimorphic. Photographed adjacent to the parks lake in Tyler State Park, Smith County, Texas, USA. Pineywoods Vegetational Area. Mixed pine hardwood...
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  14. Blue-fronted Dancer

    Blue-fronted Dancer

    Blue-fronted Dancer (Argia apicalis: Coenagrionidae) The damselfly has a total length of 3.3-4.5 cm (1.3-1.8 in). Photographed at Martin Creek Lake State Park, NE of Henderson, Rusk County, Texas, USA. Mixed pine/hardwood forest adjacent to Martin Creek Lake ca. 116 m (380 ft) elevation.
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  15. Citrine Forktail

    Citrine Forktail

    Citrine Forktail (Ischnura hastata: Coenagrionidae) There is a blue form and an orange form. This small damselfly species ranges from 2.3-2.7 cm (0.91-1.1 in) long. Photographed at Martin Creek Lake State Park, NE of Henderson, Rusk County, Texas, USA. Mixed pine/hardwood forest adjacent to...
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  16. Blue-ringed Dancer

    Blue-ringed Dancer

    Blue-ringed Dancer (Argia sedula: Coenagrionidae) This species ranges from 2.9-3.4 cm (1.1-1.3 in) long. Photographed in Bee Creek Park, College Station, Brazos County, Texas, USA. Disturbed post oak/yaupon woodland associated with Bee Creek at ca. 81 m (266 ft) elevation.
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  17. Kiowa Dancer

    Kiowa Dancer

    Kiowa Dancer (Argia immunda: Coenagrionidae) Total length 3.3-3.8 cm (1.3-1.5 in) long. Photographed at Research Park, College Station, Brazos County, Texas, USA. Open post oak savannah with several lochs or dams creating several ponds. Elevation ca. 102 m (335 ft).
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  18. Powdered Dancer

    Powdered Dancer

    Powdered Dancer (Argia moesta: Coenagrionidae) This damselfly has a total length of 3.7-4.2 cm (1.5-1.7 in). Photographed on limestone cliffs above the Rio Grande along the Rio Grande Nature Trail at ca. 579 m (1,900 ft) elevation. Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas, USA. May 2014
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  19. Blue-ringed Dancer (female)

    Blue-ringed Dancer (female)

    Blue-ringed Dancer (Argia sedula: Coenagrionidae) The total length of this species of damselfly ranges from 2.9-3.4 cm (1.14-1.34 in) long. Species sexually dimorphic. Photographed in Riverside Park, Victoria, Victoria County, Texas, USA. Margin of the Guadalupe River at ca. 29 m (95 ft)...
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  20. Rambur's Forktail

    Rambur's Forktail

    Ramburs Forktail (Ischnura ramburii: Coenagrionidae) These damselflies have a total length of 2.7-3.6 cm (1.06-1.42 in) long. Photographed around Lake Texana, east of Edna, Jackson County, Texas, USA. Gulf Prairies and Marshes Vegetational Area at ca. 14.6 m (48 ft) elevation. Lake margin with...
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  21. Rambur's Forktails

    Rambur's Forktails

    Ramburs Forktails (Ischnura ramburii: Coenagrionidae) These damselflies have a total length of 2.7-3.6 cm (1.06-1.42 in) long. Photographed around Lake Texana, east of Edna, Jackson County, Texas, USA. Gulf Prairies and Marshes Vegetational Area at ca. 14.6 m (48 ft) elevation. Lake margin with...
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  22. Springwater Dancer (male)

    Springwater Dancer (male)

    Springwater Dancer (Argia plana: Coenagrionidae) This damselfly ranges in total length from 3.4-4.0 cm (1.3-1.6 in). Photographed this male in south Austin, along a small stream, Travis County, Texas, USA. Species sexually dimorphic. Edwards Plateau Vegetational Area with rolling limestone...
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  23. Powdered Dancer

    Powdered Dancer

    Powdered Dancer (Argia moesta: Coenagrionidae) Their body length is 2.3-4.3 cm (1.5-1.7 in) long. Photographed at the Little Brazos River, Brazos County, Texas, USA. Post Oak Savannah Vegetational Area. Riparian, at ca. 64 m (210 ft) elevation.
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  24. Desert Firetail

    Desert Firetail

    Desert Firetail (Telebasis salva: Coenagrionidae) These small damselflies are only 2.5-3.1 cm (1.0-1.2 In) long and very easy to overlook despite their bright coloration. Photographed at Camelot Park, Bryan, Brazos County, Texas, USA. Open park with scattered pecan, hackberry and elm trees at...
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  25. Rambur's Forktail

    Rambur's Forktail

    Ramburs Forktail (Ischnura ramburii: Coenagrionidae) These beautiful little damselflies range from 2.7-3.5 cm (1.1-1.4 in) long. Photographed near Raymondville, Williacy County, Texas, USA. Lower Rio Grande Valley, lower portion of the Gulf Prairies and Marshes Vegetational Area, margin of a...
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