Arctic Bluet
(Coenagrion johanssoni)

The Arctic Bluet (Coenagrion johanssoni) is a truly tiny damselfly of Scandinavia and the Baltics. Its short and slender abdomen is predominantly black, with extensive black markings along the sides and a 'black cat' motif laterally on S1-2. Dorsally the male's S2 carries a U-shaped mark (but we have seen some males whose marks had a connecting stem, thus forming a Y-shape). The female's abdomen is all black dorsally except for S9-10, which are light blue. Coenagrion johanssoni prefers small peat bogs and swampy ponds, and it has quite a late flying season for such a small damselfly (June to August).

For an overview of the Arctic Bluet's distribution in Europe, hover your mouse pointer over the map symbol .
With the authors' permission we have based this map on data published in Kalkman et al. (2010).
Legend: Red = Occurs, White = Doesn't occur; Purple = Extinct; Yellow = Vagrant.

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