Burgundy Bluet (Enallagma dubium)

Identification: A small dark bluet with dark ruby eyes in male, two dark lateral thoracic stripes (the upper large and bold and the lower smaller and tapered toward the head) and interspersed between the dark stripes are purple/violet to rosy orange coloration. The abdomen is dark on top of all segments.

copyright Allen Bryan 2009; Burgundy Bluet

Male- Caroline County, Virginia on May 25, 2009