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Dragonflies and Damselflies of Alabama

This guide is a reference for identifying all species dragonflies and damselflies reported from Alabama. If you have additions or corrections please send them to jpfriel@ua.edu.

Blue-fronted Dancer 1
Argia apicalis
Seepage Dancer 2
Argia bipunctulata
Variable Dancer 3
Argia fumipennis
Smoky-winged Dancer 4
Argia fumipennis fumipennis
Violet Dancer 5
Argia fumipennis violacea
Powdered Dancer 6
Argia moesta
Blue-ringed Dancer 7
Argia sedula
Blue-tipped Dancer 8
Argia tibialis
Dusky Dancer 9
Argia translata
Azure Bluet 2
Enallagma aspersum
Double-striped Bluet 10
Enallagma basidens
Purple Bluet 11
Enallagma cardenium
Enallagma civile (Familiar Bluet) 12
Enallagma civile
Cherry Bluet 13
Enallagma concisum
Attenuated Bluet 14
Enallagma daeckii
Sandhill Bluet 4
Enallagma davisi
Turquoise Bluet 15
Enallagma divagans
Atlantic Bluet 16
Enallagma doubledayi
Burgundy Bluet 4
Enallagma dubium
Big Bluet 17
Enallagma durum
Stream Bluet 1
Enallagma exsulans
Skimming Bluet 10
Enallagma geminatum
Pale Bluet 18
Enallagma pallidum
Florida Bluet 11
Enallagma pollutum
Orange Bluet 19
Enallagma signatum
Golden Bluet 18
Enallagma sulcatum
Enallagma traviatum (Slender Bluet) 6
Enallagma traviatum
Enallagma vesperum (Vesper Bluet) 20
Enallagma vesperum
Blackwater Bluet 7
Enallagma weewa
Citrine Forktail 3
Ischnura hastata
Lilypad Forktail 7
Ischnura kellicotti
Fragile Forktail 21
Ischnura posita
Furtive Forktail 18
Ischnura prognata
Rambur's Forktail 7
Ischnura ramburii
Eastern Forktail 22
Ischnura verticalis
Eastern Red Damsel 15
Amphiagrion saucium
Chromagrion conditum (Aurora Damsel) 4
Chromagrion conditum
Sphagnum Sprite 23
Nehalennia gracilis
Nehalennia integricollis (Southern Sprite) 23
Nehalennia integricollis
Telebasis byersi (Duckweed Firetail) 24
Telebasis byersi

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