Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
Genus: Ischnura
Species: Verticalis
Similar to Rambur's Forktail (I. ramburii)
More Eastern Forktails
Updated February 8 2015
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
Genus: Ischnura
Species: Verticalis
More Eastern Forktails
Updated February 8 2015
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
Genus: Ischnura
Species: Verticalis
Some females (rare) are patterned like the male
More Eastern Forktails
Updated February 8 2015
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
Genus: Enallagma
Species: Civile?
More Bluets
Updated April 22 2013
Familiar? Bluet Damselflies (female & male) - approx.
3.5 cm
3.5 cm
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
Genus: Enallagma
Species: Civile?
More Bluets
Updated April 22 2013
? - approx. 4 cm
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Genus: ?
Species: ?
More ?
Updated February 3 2009
Home
Narrow-winged Damselflies
Page Last Updated: August 11 2019
16 species
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Genus: ?
Species: ?
More ?
Updated February 3 2009
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Genus: Argia (Dancers)?
Species: ?
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Genus: Argia (Dancers)
Species: Fumipennis
Violet Dancer (A. fumipennis violacea) is a subspecies -
wide range of habitats including small streams, sandy lake
shores, fields of sedges and grasses
wide range of habitats including small streams, sandy lake
shores, fields of sedges and grasses
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
More ? Damselflies
Updated September 22 2017
Familiar Bluet has large blue middle abdominal
segments compared to most other bluets - wide range of
habitats including lakes, ponds, open marshes and slow
streams
segments compared to most other bluets - wide range of
habitats including lakes, ponds, open marshes and slow
streams
Female may be brown or blue with abdomen black above
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
Genus: Ischnura
Species: Posita
More Fragile Forktails
Updated February 4 2012
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Broken antehumeral stripe (resembling an exclamation
mark) is characteristic of this species
mark) is characteristic of this species
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
Genus: Enallagma
Species: ?
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Possibly female Familiar Bluet (see above)
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
Genus: Enallagma
Species: Signatum
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Similar to immature female Eastern Forktail (see above)
which has an entriely black abdomen tip - wide range of
habitats including lakes, ponds and slow streams
which has an entriely black abdomen tip - wide range of
habitats including lakes, ponds and slow streams
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
Genus: Enallagma
Species: Geminatum
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
More Skimming Bluets
Updated June 1 2019
Lake pond and slow stream habitats usually with lily pads
or other floating vegetation
or other floating vegetation
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Genus: Nehalennia (Sprites)
Species: Irene
Wide range of habitats including sedgy pond and lake
shores, sedge meadows and bogs
shores, sedge meadows and bogs
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Genus: ?
Species: ?
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
Genus: Enallagma
Species: Civile?
More Bluets
Updated April 22 2013
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Female may be brown or blue with abdomen black above
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
Genus: Enallagma
Species: Annexum? Vernale? Boreale?
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
The Northern Bluet (E. annexum), Vernal Bluet (E. vernale)
and Boreal Bluet (E. boreale) are impossible to distinguish
by a photograph
and Boreal Bluet (E. boreale) are impossible to distinguish
by a photograph
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
Genus: Enallagma
Species: ?
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Possibly female Familiar Bluet (see above)
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Genus: ?
Species: ?
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
More Bluets
Updated April 22 2013
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Genus: ?
Species: ?
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged Damselflies)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Possibly Blue-fronted Dancer (Argia apicalis) brown form
female
female
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
Eastern Forktail Damselfly (male) on Glandular Touch-me-not - approx. 3 cm - High Park - June 2010
Familiar? Bluet Damselfly (male)- approx. 3.5 cm - Humber Valley (Humber Arboretum) - August 2007
Familiar? Bluet Damselflies (female & male) - approx. 3.5 cm - West Don Valley (G. Ross Lord Park) - September 2007
? - approx. 4 cm - Lynde Shores Conservation Area (Whitby) - September 2007
Eastern Forktail Damselfly (mature female) - approx. 3 cm - Lower Don Valley (Crother's Woods) - August 2007
Eastern Forktail Damselfly (immature female) - approx. 3 cm - Lower Don Valley (Crother's Woods) - August 2007
? - approx. 4 cm - Lynde Shores Conservation Area (Whitby) - September 2007
Fragile Forktail Damselfly (male) - approx. 2.5 cm - Lower Don Valley (Leaside) - June 2011
Orange Bluet Damselfly (male) - approx. 3.5 cm - High Park - June 2012
Skimming Bluet Damselflies (male & female) on White Water-lily pad - approx. 3 cm - Lower Don Valley (Brickworks) - June 2012
Sedge Sprite (female) - approx. 3 cm - Thorncliffe Park - June 2012
Familiar? Bluet Damselflies (male & female) - approx. 3.5 cm - Samuel Smith Park - September 2012
Bluet Damselfly (female) - approx. 3.5 cm - Leslie Spit - August 2008
Bluet damselfly (female) - approx. 3.5 cm - Leslie Spit - August 2008
? - approx. 4 cm - Lower Don Valley (Brickworks) - July 2007
Damselfly - approx. 5 cm - Rouge Park (Glenrouge Campground) - July 2014
Bluet Damselflies (male & female) on Red Raspberry - approx. 3.5 cm - Beaver Creek (Richmond Hill) - June 2008
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
Genus: Chromagrion (Aurora Damsels)
Species: Conditum
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
More Aurora Damsels
Updated March 12 2017
Aurora Damsels (female & male) - approx. 3.5 cm - Terra Cotta Conservation Area - June 2016
Lack of humeral stripe - yellow on sides of abdomen and
thorax - often perches with wings partially open
thorax - often perches with wings partially open
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Genus: Argia (Dancers)
Species: Moesta
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Powdered Dancer (male) - approx. 4 cm - West Oak Trails (Oakville) - June 2016
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Genus: Argia (Dancers)
Species: Moesta
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Powdered Dancer (female) - approx. 4 cm - West Oak Trails (Oakville) - June 2016
Slow wing beats (difficulty in flying) probably indicates a
teneral
teneral
? Damselfly (teneral) - hanging vertically - approx. 4 cm - Toronto Islands - September 2017
More Variable Dancers
Updated September 22 2017
Variable Dancer (male) - approx. 3 cm - York Regional Forest (Scout Tract) - July 2017
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Genus: ?
Species: ?
Family: ?
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Damselfly naiad - approx. 1 cm - Lower Don Valley (Brickworks) - July 2012
Damselfly naiad - approx. 1 cm
Damselfly - approx. 5 cm - High Park - June 2017
Similar to Blue-fronted Dancer (female) - with the
Powdered Dancer a crossvein meets the middle of the
stigma on at least some wings
Powdered Dancer a crossvein meets the middle of the
stigma on at least some wings