#3749 · 🪽 dragonflies & damselflies

Chalky Percher

Diplacodes trivialis

LCleast concern 🪽 Dragonflies & damselflies 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © silram · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Chathuri Jayatissa · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Joseph Marvin Jansen · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Bug's eyes photography · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © Reiner Richter · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
6. © Jemuel Stanley · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. © Satyen Mehta · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Soumendra Mukhopadhyay · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Liu JimFood · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © Bronze Cheung Kwok Yee · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Diplacodes trivialis , is a species of dragonfly in the family Libellulidae, known as the chalky percher or ground skimmer . It is found in China, Japan, India and southwards to New Guinea and Australia.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 34,629iNaturalist 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).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
34,629 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Pierre Rambur in 1842 (184 years ago).