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Blue-tailed Damselfly

Ischnura elegans

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Field Notes

Habitat:

Running river

Notes:

Notice the reddish dot between the compound eyes. This is the ocelli, a "third" eye which in contrast to the compound eyes is single-lensed, like ours.
In the second picture you can notice the secondary genitalia under the begging of the abdomen, showing that this is a male damselfly.

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