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5teve Pays Basque, France Sep 09, 2009

A Damselfly no common name sometimes called demoiselles

Odonata

sub order Zygoptera

Family Agriidae
Agrion
virgo
Great site thanks

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Sep 10, 2009

5teve,

my research shows that your damselfly is also known by the name Calopteryx virgo and is then placed in the family Calopterygidae: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful_Demoiselle

It is hard to be sure which name is current, but therre are more references to it as Calopteryx virgo and so I have created the entry using that name.

I have noted the synonym of Agrion virgo and will add it when Dave provides the means of storing synonyms in BugFiles.

The new entry is here: http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/go/5708/

Kennedy

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5teve Pays Basque, France Sep 11, 2009

Kennedy

Thanks for your help, interesting the name I looked it up in a French guide before comming back and reading your comments I found a close relative Calopteryx splendens (colour on wings starts after the nodus) which my books is Arion splendens my info is obviously out of date

Thanks again for your time and a great site

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