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Vivid Dancer

Argia vivida

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in California.January 1,252, February 1,083, March 1,128, April 2,185, May 2,228, June 2,002, July 1,662, August 1,205, September 1,107, October 1,131, November 1,454, December 1,121.
United States21,735
California17,398
Oregon1,549
Colorado650
Utah646
Nevada570
Washington421
Canada266
Idaho254
British Columbia143

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • Aquatic larvaLarval stage lives in water before becoming terrestrialFrom its classification
  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderDragonflies and Damselflies · Odonata
FamilyNarrow-winged Damselflies · Coenagrionidae
GenusDancers · Argia

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