Common Name: Taiga Bluet Latin Name:
Coenagrion resolutum Hagen in Selys, 1876
(R.
Bercha, det.)
Length: 30 mm
Range: Throughout Alberta
Habitat:
Sedge marshes and peat lands
Time of year seen: May
to September (Additional Sightings)
Diet: Insects
Other: The male Taiga Bluet has distinctive
markings, with blue stripes on
the top of its abdomen with no markings on the underside. The top of
the second abdominal segment has a distinct black "U" shaped marking
and two and a half segments towards the tip of the abdomen are black: 6 and
7 and half of 5. The female Taiga is yellow-green or tan to blue with the tops of abdominal
segments 8, 9 and 10 being colored black. (Cannings, 2002 & Acorn, 2004) |