BC Conservation Data Centre: Species Summary
Coenagrion interrogatum
Subarctic Bluet
| Scientific Name: | Coenagrion interrogatum (Selys, 1876) | ||||||||||
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| English Name: | Subarctic Bluet | ||||||||||
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| Scientific Name - Concept Reference: | Paulson, D.R. and S.W. Dunkle. 1999. A checklist of North American Odonata. Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound Occasional Paper, 56: 86 pp. Available: http://www.ups.edu/x7015.xml. | ||||||||||
| Classification Level: | Species | ||||||||||
| Species Group: | Invertebrate Animal | ||||||||||
| Species Code: | OD-COEINT | ||||||||||
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| Global Status: | G5 (Feb 2016) | ||||||||||
| Provincial Status: | S5 (Mar 2023) | ||||||||||
| BC List: | Yellow | ||||||||||
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| General Status Canada: | 4 - Secure (2005) | ||||||||||
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Nonmigrant: Local Migrant: Distant Migrant: Within Borders Migrant: |
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| Global Habitat Comments: | This species occurs in a variety of wetlands, marshes, swamps, fens, bogs, cold wet sedge meadows, and shallow peaty ponds in boreal forests where aquatic mosses are abundant (Blackburn, 2020). | ||||||||||
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| Provincial Phenology: (1st half of month/ 2nd half of month) |
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| Colonial Breeder: | N | ||||||||||
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| Endemic: | N | ||||||||||
| Global Range Comment: | Found throughout Canada and in several of the northern United States, including most of New England. | ||||||||||
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Coenagrion interrogatum in Royal British Columbia Museum and the Spencer Entomological Museum. 2004h. Odonata distribution maps based on data from the Royal British Columbia Museum and the Spencer Entomological Museum. Produced by Clover Point Cartographics for the Royal British Columbia Museum and Conservation Data Centre, Victoria, BC. |
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Cannings, R.A. 2002b. Introducing the dragonflies of British Columbia and the Yukon. Royal B.C. Mus., Victoria, BC. 96pp. |
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Please visit the website Conservation Status Ranks for definitions of the data fields used in this summary report.
Suggested Citation:
B.C. Conservation Data Centre. Species Summary: Coenagrion interrogatum. B.C. Minist. of Environment. Available: https://a100.gov.bc.ca/pub/eswp/ (accessed Jun 6, 2026).