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Atlantic Bluet

Enallagma doubledayi

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in New Jersey.January 57, February 55, March 65, April 111, May 192, June 83, July 89, August 116, September 97, October 103, November 57, December 52.
United States3,544
New Jersey591
Massachusetts344
Georgia325
Texas209
North Carolina186
Alabama162
South Carolina112
Maryland103
Delaware78

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
GenusBluets · Enallagma

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