Eastern Forktail

Eastern Forktail
adult male
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Suborder: Zygoptera
Family: Coenagrionidae
Genus: Ischnura
Species: I. verticalis
Binomial name
Ischnura verticalis
(Say, 1839) [1]

Eastern Forktail (Ischnura verticalis) is a member of the damselfly family Coenagrionidae.

The males are yellow-green with blue on the top of the eighth and ninth abdominal segments. The females may be orange, or less commonly yellow-green like the male.[2][3]

Flies from late June to early October.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Ischnura verticalis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=102079. 
  2. ^ Abbott, John C. (2005). Dragonflies and Damselflies of Texas and the South-Central United States. Princeton University Press. p. 141. ISBN 0691113645. 
  3. ^ a b Dubois, Bob. Damselflies of the North Woods. Duluth, MN:Kollath+Stensaas, 2005, p.110-111.

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External identifiers for Eastern Forktail
EOL 234747