Blue-tailed Damselfly

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Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Odonata
Suborder:	Zygoptera
Family:	Coenagrionidae
Genus:	Ischnura
Species:	I. elegans

Binomial name

Ischnura elegans
(Vander Linden, 1820)

The Blue-tailed Damselfly, Ischnura elegans, is a European damselfly.

Adult male Blue-tailed Damselflies have a head and thorax patterned with blue and black. They have a largely black abdomen with very narrow pale markings where each segment joins the next. Segment eight, however, is entirely pale blue.

Adult female Blue-tailed Damselflies come in a variety of colour forms, including a pink form, a violet form and a pale green form.