#3699 · 🪽 dragonflies & damselflies

Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly

🇳🇱 Tengere Grasjuffer ·Ischnura pumilio

LCleast concern 🪽 Dragonflies & damselflies 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Erland Refling Nielsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Corinna Herr · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Axel Gosseries · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Erland Refling Nielsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Paul Ritchie · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. 6871 Renkum, Nederland:© dgcurrywheel · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Anderen, Provincie Drenthe, Holland:© Erland Refling Nielsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Leiden, Netherlands:© J. H. · CC BY 4.0
10. Wassenaar, Netherlands:© J. H. · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The scarce blue-tailed damselfly or small bluetail ( Ischnura pumilio ) is a member of the damselfly family Coenagrionidae.

base stats

NL sightings 155iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,049iNaturalist 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

Spotted 155 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #38 most seen of the dragonflies & damselflies in NL.
4,049 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Toussaint von Charpentier in 1825 (201 years ago).