Eastern Forktail Damselfly - Ischnura verticalis
Male and female specimens, mating wheel
Order Odonata (Fabricius, 1793) -- libélula / Suborder Zygoptera (Selys, 1854) -- damselflies, demoiselles / Family Coenagrionidae -- narrow-winged damselflies
Genus Ischnura (Charpentier, 1840) / Species Ischnura verticalis (Say, 1839)
 

Eastern Forktail Damselfly - Ischnura verticalis

              
                         Teneral (immature) Female - Eastern Forktail damselfly females have several different color schemes.
 


Male


Male


Mating Wheel

Female
Female with prey
Female
 
               
 
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