#3751 · 🪽 dragonflies & damselflies

Rambur's Forktail

Ischnura ramburii

LCleast concern 🪽 Dragonflies & damselflies 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

Rambur's forktail ( Ischnura ramburii ) is a member of the damselfly family Coenagrionidae. Males are green with blue on abdominal segments 8 and 9. Females are orange-red, olive green, or similar to males in coloration. This is the most widespread New World Ischnura , occurring throughout the Americas from the United States to Chile, as well as Hawaii and the Antilles.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 29,418iNaturalist 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.
29,418 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Edmond de Selys Longchamps in 1850 (176 years ago).