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Syrian Bluet
Coenagrion syriacum
The Syrian bluet (Coenagrion syriacum) is a species of damselfly in the family Coenagrionidae. It is found in Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey. Its natural habitats are swamps, freshwater marshes, ponds, and canals and ditches. It is threatened by habitat loss.
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Description
The Syrian bluet is part of a group of three species of ‘eurasian bluets' that are quite similar to each other and differ in their geographical distribution: the European C. puella and the Cretan C. intermedium. All three are long, slender blue-black damselflies with dark pterostigmas, and the males have a characteristic pattern on the abdominal segments: S2 with a U-shape, segments S3–S5 showing black rings with elongated "spikes" on the sides of each segment extending almost to its base; and S6–S7 are mostly black. Females have black upper parts of the abdominal segments, and can appear either blue like the males (andromorph), or pinkish-beige with a bluish belly (gynomorph).
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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 98281.