Use The Key
Step 2: Dragonfly (suborder: Anisoptera) or damselfly (suborder: Zygoptera)?
Does your specimen have 3 short, stiff pointed valves at the tip of the abdomen?
Then it's a dragonfly (Suborder Anisoptera).
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Then it's a dragonfly (Suborder Anisoptera).
Or does it have 3 long, caudal tracheal gills at the tip of the abdomen?
And a head like this?
Then it’s a damselfly (Suborder Zygoptera). We don’t have further identification available for Zygoptera larvae on this site.
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And a head like this?
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Then it’s a damselfly (Suborder Zygoptera). We don’t have further identification available for Zygoptera larvae on this site.