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title: "Familiar Bluet"
description: "Enallagma civile — Insetos e aranhas. The familiar bluet (Enallagma civile) is a narrow-winged damselfly of the family Coenagrionidae, which is native to much of the United States and southern Canada."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/familiar-bluet
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Familiar Bluet

> Enallagma civile — Insetos e aranhas. The familiar bluet (Enallagma civile) is a narrow-winged damselfly of the family Coenagrionidae, which is native to much of the United States and southern Canada.

- Scientific name: *Enallagma civile*
- Category: `insects` (Insetos e aranhas)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Lagos e rios)
- iNaturalist observations: 46310
- Wikidata: [Q1633993](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1633993)
- iNaturalist taxon: [99897](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/99897)

## Names

- en: Familiar Bluet
- es: Azulilla de estanque común
- fr: Agrion civil

## Countries with the most observations

US (28781), CA (2289), MX (725), CO (25), HN (18), GT (14), CR (10), DO (8), PA (7), JM (6), CU (4), HT (4)

## Summary

The familiar bluet (Enallagma civile) is a narrow-winged damselfly of the family Coenagrionidae, which is native to much of the United States and southern Canada. In a broader sense, it is a part of the order Odonata. It is an order that consists of predatory flying insects, such as dragonflies and damselflies. Damselflies are structurally similar to dragonflies, except damselflies have a slimmer body and they have widely-separated eyes; whereas dragonflies have larger eyes that nearly touch. 
The familiar bluet have been found to reside in natural or artificially-made ponds, or simply places where bodies of non-polluted…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familiar_bluet

## Photo

![Familiar Bluet](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/familiar-bluet/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jade Fortnash · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/123045657

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/familiar-bluet?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).