The front of the male's head is blue striped with a broad black bar. The top of the head is largely black except for two small pale postocular spots. The pronotum is largely black with patches of blue. The middorsal carina is nearly always black bordered by a wide middorsal stripe half the width of [...]

The face of the male is blue and the top of the head is black with pale postocular spots and a widely separated occipital bar. The middorsal thoracic carina is pale blue and thinly visible in the center of the dark middorsal stripe that is half the width of the mesepisterna. The antehumeral stripe is [...]

One of the most common damselflies in the northeast, Slender Spreadwing is only found in the northern parts of the region. It has an unusually long abdomen and distinctive pale blue antehumeral stripes. The eyes of the male are blue. The rear of the head is black becoming pruinose at maturity. The antehumeral area is [...]