Boreal Bluet (Enallagama boreale) or
Northern Bluet (Enallagama annexum)

NOTE: Northern and Boreal Bluets are indistinguishable in the field without close inspection according to Paulson (2009) and Kerst and Gordon (2011). There are slight differences in head markings and appendages and the Boreal Bluet is more likely in the Cascades.


Northern male? Service Creek, John Day River, Wheeler County, Oregon




Northern male? Upper Klamath Lake, Klamath County, Oregon




Boreal pair? Rowena area, Wasco County, Oregon




Northern male? Trillium Lake, Clackamas County, Oregon




Boreal androchrome female? Trillium Lake, Clackamas County, Oregon



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