Wild Utah Photos of Dragonflies, dragonfly, damselfly, Boreal Bluet - Enallagma boreale, June 11th 2006 - Chicken Creek, Juab County, Utah and September 6, 2005

Boreal Bluet, Male - Enallagma boreale
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Male Boreal Bluet at Scipio Lake, Millard County, Utah on July 23, 2006

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Abdomen

Thorax and Head

Face

Appendages

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Albion Basin, Salt Lake County, Utah

Photo Details - ©Nicky Davis

Chicken Creek, Juab County, Utah
GPS 39° 28' 55.09" N, 111°58' 27.63" W
Elevation 5077 feet.
June 11, 2006.

1., 2. full view
3. abdomen
4. , 5. head and thorax
6. face
7., 8., 9. appendages

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September 6, 2005, Albion Basin, Salt Lake County, Utah
1., 2.,Male dorsal
3. female ventral
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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. See #8 appendage photo