Attenuated Bluet

Enallagma daeckii · Order: Odonata · Family: Coenagrionidae

Also called: Attentuated Bluet

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Attenuated Bluet
Photo: Laura Gaudette, CC BY

The attenuated bluet is a narrow-winged damselfly in the family Coenagrionidae. It lives only in the eastern United States.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

It belongs to the damselfly family Coenagrionidae.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

The species is found in the eastern United States.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 20 of 51 states and DC. Most records: New Jersey, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Maryland.

Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.

Source: GBIF

Status: native in North America; native in United States. Source: iNaturalist

Months it is reported in the US

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Source: GBIF

More photos

Attenuated Bluet photo 2
Photo: Nick Block, CC BY
Attenuated Bluet photo 3
Photo: John Baur, CC BY
Attenuated Bluet photo 4
Photo: Nick Block, CC BY
Attenuated Bluet photo 5
Photo: Sandra Keller, CC BY

Same family (Coenagrionidae)

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Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enallagma_daeckii

Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia

Text written 2026-10-24 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-24.

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