Common Bluetail

Ischnura senegalensis · Order: Odonata · Family: Coenagrionidae

Also called: African Bluetail, African-Asian Common Bluetail, March Bluetail, Marsh Bluetail

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Common Bluetail
Photo: Piotr Lukasik, CC BY

It breeds in marshes, weedy ponds and other wetlands.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Thorax is black on the back and greenish-blue on the sides.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

Breeds in marshes, weedy ponds and wetlands.

Source: Wikipedia

Status: introduced in Canada. Source: iNaturalist

Same family (Coenagrionidae)

Eastern ForktailEastern ForktailIschnura verticalisBlue-tailed DamselflyBlue-tailed DamselflyIschnura elegansFragile ForktailFragile ForktailIschnura positaAzure DamselflyAzure DamselflyCoenagrion puellaFamiliar BluetFamiliar BluetEnallagma civileCommon Blue DamselflyCommon Blue DamselflyEnallagma cyathigerum

Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ischnura_senegalensis

Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · Wikipedia

Text written 2026-10-22 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-22.

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