#3729 · 🪽 dragonflies & damselflies
Copper Demoiselle
🇳🇱 Koperen beekjuffer ·Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis
📍 Provincia di Latina, Italia
📍 Sassari, Sardegna, Italy
📍 Via Giovato, 32, 19021 Arcola SP, Italia
📍 Algeria
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Ferran Turmo Gort · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 2. © Pascal Dubois · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Roger Sanderson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © naturcope · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © alessandrof · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Javier Sánchez Álvarez · CC BY 4.0
- 7. Provincia di Latina, Italia:© Dino Biancolini · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Sassari, Sardegna, Italy:© Drepanostoma · CC BY 4.0
- 9. Via Giovato, 32, 19021 Arcola SP, Italia:© ercole-buoso · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Algeria:© Saif El Islam ABBAS · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis is a species of damselfly in the family Calopterygidae known by the common names copper demoiselle and Mediterranean demoiselle .
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 9,103 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Pierre Léonard Vander Linden in 1825 (201 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Copper Demoiselle
- Nederlands
- Koperen beekjuffer
- scientific name
- Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Odonata
- family
- Calopterygidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 8,575
- sightings worldwide
- 9,103
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1825 by Pierre Léonard Vander Linden
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Calopterygidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 96487, Wikidata Q928500, GBIF 8358891, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.