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Calopteryx maculata
Black wings with metallic green/blue body. Beautiful dragonfly.
Thank you so much again Jakubko. Male and female look so different.
But, they were flying around together, so I knew that they liked each other ;-0. ps -- I meant to say "dragonfly," not butterfly
This is actually more closely related to the dragonfly. This is a damselfly in the order Odonata, suborder Zygoptera. Dragonflies are in the order Odonata and the suborder Anisoptera. When one refers to these both, they usually just call them "Odes."