#3672 · 🪽 dragonflies & damselflies
Banded Demoiselle
🇳🇱 Weidebeekjuffer ·Calopteryx splendens
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
what is it?
The banded demoiselle ( Calopteryx splendens ) is a species of damselfly belonging to the family Calopterygidae. It is often found along slow-flowing streams and rivers. It is a Eurasian species occurring from the Atlantic coast eastwards to Lake Baikal and northwestern China.
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
- Spotted 766 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #11 most seen of the dragonflies & damselflies in NL.
- 47,088 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Moses Harris in 1780 (246 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Banded Demoiselle
- Nederlands
- Weidebeekjuffer
- scientific name
- Calopteryx splendens
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Odonata
- family
- Calopterygidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 766
- sightings in Europe
- 41,254
- sightings worldwide
- 47,088
- GBIF records in NL
- 113,644
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1780 by Moses Harris
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Calopterygidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 51824, Wikidata Q909597, GBIF 1427067, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.