#3718 · 🪽 dragonflies & damselflies
Spearhead bluet
🇳🇱 Speerwaterjuffer ·Coenagrion hastulatum
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Erland Refling Nielsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © elbebiber · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Ryszard Orzechowski · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Felix Puff · CC0
- 5. © Oleg Kosterin · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Noord-Brabant, NL:© Mark Schellekens · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Haaksbergen, Nederland:© Annika Tiane Vermaat · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Oisterwijk, NL-NB, NL:© Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Noord-Brabant, NL:© Paul G. Schrijvershof · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
what is it?
Coenagrion hastulatum , the northern damselfly or spearhead bluet , is a damselfly in the family Coenagrionidae.
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 39 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 5,585 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Toussaint von Charpentier in 1825 (201 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Spearhead bluet
- Nederlands
- Speerwaterjuffer
- scientific name
- Coenagrion hastulatum
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Odonata
- family
- Coenagrionidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 39
- sightings in Europe
- 4,316
- sightings worldwide
- 5,585
- GBIF records in NL
- 3,144
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1825 by Toussaint von Charpentier
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Coenagrionidae
#3662 📷 8Blue-tailed Damselfly
🇳🇱 Lantaarntje
Ischnura elegans
LC 👀 2.4k in NL
#3665 📷 10Azure Damselfly
🇳🇱 Azuurwaterjuffer
Coenagrion puella
LC 👀 1.6k in NL
#3668 📷 8Common Blue Damselfly
🇳🇱 Watersnuffel
Enallagma cyathigerum
LC 👀 1k in NL
#3669 📷 10Large Red Damselfly
🇳🇱 Vuurjuffer
Pyrrhosoma nymphula
LC 👀 918 in NL
#3676 📷 10Variable Bluet
🇳🇱 Variabele Waterjuffer
Coenagrion pulchellum
LC 👀 562 in NL
#3684 📷 8Red-eyed Damselfly
🇳🇱 Grote roodoogjuffer
Erythromma najas
LC 👀 328 in NL
#3689 📷 10Small Red-eyed Damselfly
🇳🇱 Kleine Roodoogjuffer
Erythromma viridulum
LC 👀 225 in NL
#3692 📷 10Small Red Damselfly
🇳🇱 Koraaljuffer
Ceriagrion tenellum
LC 👀 174 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 98273, Wikidata Q1935365, GBIF 1422001, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.