#3702 · 🪽 dragonflies & damselflies
Beautiful Demoiselle
🇳🇱 Bosbeekjuffer ·Calopteryx virgo
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what is it?
The beautiful demoiselle ( Calopteryx virgo ) is a European damselfly. It is often found along fast-flowing waters where it is most at home.
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 132 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #41 most seen of the dragonflies & damselflies in NL.
- 40,119 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Beautiful Demoiselle
- Nederlands
- Bosbeekjuffer
- scientific name
- Calopteryx virgo
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Odonata
- family
- Calopterygidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 132
- sightings in Europe
- 35,753
- sightings worldwide
- 40,119
- GBIF records in NL
- 22,463
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Calopterygidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 61536, Wikidata Q248379, GBIF 1427037, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.