The Dragonflies and Damselflies of North Carolina
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Related Species in COENAGRIONIDAE: Amphiagrion saucium - Eastern Red DamselArgia apicalis - Blue-fronted DancerArgia bipunctulata - Seepage DancerArgia fumipennis - Variable DancerArgia moesta - Powdered DancerArgia sedula - Blue-ringed DancerArgia tibialis - Blue-tipped DancerArgia translata - Dusky DancerChromagrion conditum - Aurora DamselEnallagma aspersum - Azure BluetEnallagma basidens - Double-striped BluetEnallagma civile - Familiar BluetEnallagma concisum - Cherry BluetEnallagma daeckii - Attenuated BluetEnallagma davisi - Sandhill BluetEnallagma divagans - Turquoise BluetEnallagma doubledayi - Atlantic BluetEnallagma dubium - Burgundy BluetEnallagma durum - Big BluetEnallagma exsulans - Stream BluetEnallagma geminatum - Skimming BluetEnallagma hageni - Hagen's BluetEnallagma minusculum - Little BluetEnallagma pallidum - Pale BluetEnallagma signatum - Orange BluetEnallagma sulcatum - Golden BluetEnallagma traviatum - Slender BluetEnallagma vesperum - Vesper BluetEnallagma weewa - Blackwater BluetIschnura hastata - Citrine ForktailIschnura kellicotti - Lilypad ForktailIschnura posita - Fragile ForktailIschnura prognata - Furtive ForktailIschnura ramburii - Rambur's ForktailIschnura verticalis - Eastern ForktailNehalennia gracilis - Sphagnum SpriteNehalennia integricollis - Southern SpriteNehalennia irene - Sedge SpriteTelebasis byersi - Duckweed Firetail Number of records for 2018 = 42
PDF has more details, e.g., flight data, high counts, and earliest/latest dates can be seen. [View PDF]	Blue-ringed Dancer by Mark Shields Move the cursor over the image to reveal Identification Tips. Compare with: Skimming Bluet Note: these identification tips apply specifically to mature males; features may differ in immature males and in females. [Google images]
sciName	Argia sedula
map	Click on county for list of all its records for Blue-ringed Dancer
distribution	Occurs over most of the state, but apparently absent in the eastern third or quarter of the Coastal Plain (i.e., the Tidewater area). Probably present over all of the mountains, but just one record for the southwestern counties.
abundance	Common to locally abundant (at least near the Fall Line) in the Piedmont; fairly common in the western Coastal Plain, but likely uncommon to locally fairly common in the remainder of the Coastal Plain part of the range. Uncommon to locally fairly common in the mountains, but apparently rare (though likely not absent) in the southwestern counties. Presumed absent in the Tidewater zone, from Pamlico Sound to the VA border.
flight	The Piedmont flight occurs from early May to mid-October, sparingly to mid-November. The mountain flight is from mid-May to late September, whereas the Coastal Plain flight occurs from mid-May to mid-October.
habitat	Streams and rivers, typically where somewhat rocky, and usually where there is some herbaceous vegetation along the water. Sometimes around shores of lakes and ponds, and can be found along roads and other corridors away from water.
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comments	There have been a few remarkably high counts for the species along the Neuse River below the Falls Lake dam. This is another of the common species of dancers, normally easily found in most parts of the state. The absence of records for the extreme southwestern mountains seems puzzling, considering that range maps include most of the Southeastern states.
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S_rank	S5
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G_rank	G5
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Species account update: LeGrand