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Blue-tipped dancer damselflies, mating

Argia tibialis

Description:

Adult males are unique, with purple face and upper thorax and all-black abdomen except for s9–10 blue. Females may be generally brown or blue, or very rarely green. They almost always have a thin black dorsal stripe and a thick black shoulder stripe with a fork near the wing bases, and inside the fork is a triangle of color the same color as the thorax. Rarely, a female will have a thinner dorsal stripe and a thinner, just slightly forked shoulder stripe as at middle right.

Habitat:

Mason Farm Biological Reserve

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Maria dB
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Maria dB

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Spotted on Jun 5, 2013
Submitted on Aug 2, 2013

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