• Looks like Coenagrion pulchellum - mcamcamca
  • Enallagma cyathigerum has only 1 thin black line on the side of the thorax. Coenagrion have two, and they are both visible here - at least in the original size photo. - mcamcamca

Enallagma cyathigerum (Common Blue Damselfly) - pair "in tandem"

I'm pretty sure this is the Common Blue Damselfly because the male (at right) has the characteristic segment 2 mark linked to the inter-segment suture by a short line and segments 8 and 9 are entirely blue. The female occurs in two colour forms, one blue, as in the male (seen here, at left), the other dull green.

At Shapwick Heath National Nature Reserve, Somerset.

Photographed 12 June 2010.

Somerset's Nature Reserves

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  1. mcamcamca (13 months ago | reply)

    Very nice!

    I think these are not Enallagma cyathigerum but Coenagrion pulchellum (see notes)

    I'm no expert, so I may be wrong :)

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