#3712 · 🪽 dragonflies & damselflies

Irish Damselfly

🇳🇱 Maanwaterjuffer ·Coenagrion lunulatum

LCleast concern 🪽 Dragonflies & damselflies 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. 6611 Overasselt, Nederland:© Simon Hazenberg · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. Netherlands:© J. H. · CC BY 4.0
4. Netherlands:© J. H. · CC BY 4.0
5. Overijssel, NL:© Dr. Günther Fuchs · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Netherlands:© J. H. · CC BY 4.0
7. 7894 Zwartemeer, Nederland:© Gerben ter Haar · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Overijssel, NL:© Dr. Günther Fuchs · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Gelderland, NL:© Paul G. Schrijvershof · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
10. Overijssel, NL:© Dr. Günther Fuchs · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The Irish damselfly or crescent bluet ( Coenagrion lunulatum ) is a damselfly found in northern Europe and Asia to north-eastern China;. It is common and widespread in northern Finland, scarce and local in the Netherlands and Ireland and rare elsewhere. One of its English name comes from the fact that it is found in Ireland but not in Britain. The alternative name, crescent bluet, refers to the shape of the markings on segment two of the male...

base stats

NL sightings 64iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 858iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

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).