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  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Dragonflies and Damselflies
  6. Damselflies

suborder

Damselflies

Zygoptera

Includes
138 native 15 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Coenagrionoid Damselflies 108 native
  • Lestoidea 19 native
  • Calopterygoidea 9 native
  • Shadowdamsels 2 native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native damselflies All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Ebony Jewelwing Calopteryx maculata 75,666 observations
  • Eastern Forktail Ischnura verticalis 64,361 observations
  • Fragile Forktail Ischnura posita 60,539 observations
  • Familiar Bluet Enallagma civile 45,649 observations
  • Powdered Dancer Argia moesta 40,056 observations
  • Variable Dancer Argia fumipennis 34,421 observations
  • Blue-fronted Dancer Argia apicalis 34,348 observations
  • Rambur's Forktail Ischnura ramburii 28,640 observations
  • American Rubyspot Hetaerina americana 23,917 observations
  • Vivid Dancer Argia vivida 23,318 observations
  • Pacific Forktail Ischnura cervula 17,592 observations
  • Blue-tipped Dancer Argia tibialis 16,358 observations
  • Orange Bluet Enallagma signatum 15,483 observations
  • Slender Spreadwing Lestes rectangularis 15,467 observations
  • Double-striped Bluet Enallagma basidens 15,332 observations
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