#3734 · 🪽 dragonflies & damselflies

Eastern Pondhawk

Erythemis simplicicollis

LCleast concern 🪽 Dragonflies & damselflies 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Roger Smith · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © Anne Thompson · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Michael J. Papay · CC BY 4.0
4. © Thomas Shahan · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Judy Gallagher · CC BY 4.0
6. © D. Gordon E. Robertson · CC BY-SA 4.0
7. © Michael J. Papay · CC BY 4.0
8. © A. Rector · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Erythemis simplicicollis , the eastern pondhawk , also known as the common pondhawk , is a dragonfly of the family Libellulidae, native to the eastern two-thirds of the United States and southern Ontario and Quebec, Canada. It is a dragonfly of ponds and still waters. The species is distinguished in that the female is bright green with a banded abdomen and the mature male has a blue abdomen with a green face and green and blue thorax.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 145,995iNaturalist 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.
145,995 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Thomas Say in 1839 (187 years ago).