#3737 · 🪽 dragonflies & damselflies
Ebony Jewelwing
Calopteryx maculata
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what is it?
The ebony jewelwing ( Calopteryx maculata ) is a species of broad-winged damselfly. S. and southeastern Canada, ranging west to the Great Plains. Other common names include black-winged damselfly .
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.
- 76,070 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Ebony Jewelwing
- scientific name
- Calopteryx maculata
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Odonata
- family
- Calopterygidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 76,070
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Calopterygidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 84481, Wikidata Q147476, GBIF 5052005, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.