Common Bluet
(Enallagma cyathigerum)

The Common Bluet is the commonest and most widespread damselfly in Europe; its range stretches from the North of Scandinavia to the South of the Mediterranean. It's a smallish black-and-blue (or black-and-greenish) damselfly with a stubby build. Enallagma cyathigerum's main distinguishing features include the very wide antehumeral stripes (a feature it shares with the Blue-Eye), the largely unmarked blue sides of the male's thorax, the mushroom-shaped mark on the male's S2, and the vulvar spine below the female's S8.

For an overview of the Common 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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