Boreal Bluet   Enallagma boreale Male Home      Dragonflies    Details      Utah Range Map For more click on Male Boreal Bluet at Chicken Creek, Juab County, Utah , June 11, 2006       Appendages   Photo Details - ©Nicky Davis July 23, 2006 Scipio Lake, Millard County, Utah Characteristics Eyes have large blue, wavy-edged, spoon-shaped eyespots with a connecting or nearly connecting blue line Thorax has a wide black dorsal stripe Thorax side stripe is wider at the front, pinches toward the back and ends in an arrow shape Dorsal side of abdomen is more blue than black on segments 1-5,  segment 6-7 more black than blue,  segments 8-9 are all blue, segment 10 is blue with a black mark in the center Lower appendages are longer than the uppers There is a little shelf on the inside of each superior appendage (cercus) (the little gray rounded bumps on either side of the fuzz) that characterizes Boreal, whereas Northern has a shelf like that projecting from the end, plainly evident from both top and sides. "Kathy Biggs "Common Dragonflies of the Southwest"