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Northern Bluets
Coenagrion
Coenagrion is a genus of damselflies in the family Coenagrionidae. Species of Coenagrion occur throughout the Holarctic, including Europe, Asia and North America. They are commonly known as the Eurasian bluets, although several species also occur in North America.
Members of Coenagrion are small to medium-sized damselflies, typically blue and black in colour, and are often associated with ponds, lakes and slow-moving freshwater habitats. The genus includes some of the most widespread and familiar damselflies of the Northern Hemisphere, including Coenagrion puella, Coenagrion pulchellum and Coenagrion hastulatum.
28 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 28 known species
Azure Damselfly
speciesCoenagrion puella
Variable Bluet
speciesCoenagrion pulchellum
Spearhead bluet
speciesCoenagrion hastulatum
Dainty Damselfly
speciesCoenagrion scitulum
Taiga Bluet
speciesCoenagrion resolutum
Southern Damselfly
speciesCoenagrion mercuriale
Arctic Bluet
speciesCoenagrion johanssoni
Irish Damselfly
speciesCoenagrion lunulatum
Ornate Bluet
speciesCoenagrion ornatum
Norfolk damselfly
speciesCoenagrion armatum
Subarctic Bluet
speciesCoenagrion interrogatum
Coenagrion ecornutum
speciesCoenagrion ecornutum
Coenagrion lanceolatum
speciesCoenagrion lanceolatum
Mediterranean Bluet
speciesCoenagrion caerulescens
Siberian Bluet
speciesCoenagrion hylas
Coenagrion glaciale
speciesCoenagrion glaciale
Coenagrion australocaspicum
speciesCoenagrion australocaspicum
Coenagrion castellani
speciesCoenagrion castellani
Syrian Bluet
speciesCoenagrion syriacum
Prairie Bluet
speciesCoenagrion angulatum
Cretan Bluet
speciesCoenagrion intermedium
Coenagrion daponshanensis
speciesCoenagrion daponshanensis
Coenagrion ponticum
speciesCoenagrion ponticum
Coenagrion terue
speciesCoenagrion terue
Coenagrion persicum
speciesCoenagrion persicum
Coenagrion exclamationis
speciesCoenagrion exclamationis
Coenagrion holdereri
speciesCoenagrion holdereri
Coenagrion melanoproctum
speciesCoenagrion melanoproctum
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 51679.