''Enallagma pollutum'', the Florida bluet, is a species of narrow-winged
damselfly
Damselflies are flying insects of the suborder Zygoptera in the order Odonata. They are similar to dragonflies, which constitute the other odonatan suborder, Anisoptera, but are smaller and have slimmer bodies. Most species fold the wings alo ...
in the family
Coenagrionidae
The insect family Coenagrionidae is placed in the order Odonata and the suborder Zygoptera.
The Zygoptera are the damselflies, which although less known than the dragonflies, are no less common. More than 1,300 species are in this family, maki ...
.
[ It is ]endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found els ...
to the eastern United States.
The IUCN conservation status of ''Enallagma pollutum'' is "least concern
A least-concern species is a species that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evaluated as not being a focus of species conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wild. Th ...
", with no immediate threat to the species' survival. The population is stable.[
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Coenagrionidae
Odonata of North America
Endemic insects of the United States
Insects described in 1861
Taxa named by Hermann August Hagen
Articles created by Qbugbot
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