Eastern Forktail
| Eastern forktail | |
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| Adult male | |
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| Adult female | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Odonata |
| Suborder: | Zygoptera |
| Family: | Coenagrionidae |
| Genus: | Ischnura |
| Species: | I. verticalis |
| Binomial name | |
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Ischnura verticalis (Say, 1839) |
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| External identifiers for Eastern forktail | |
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| Encyclopedia of Life | 234747 |
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.
Flies from late June to early October.
Immature female
Immature Female
Immature Female
Male
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