#3688 · 🪽 dragonflies & damselflies

Migrant Spreadwing

🇳🇱 Zwervende Pantserjuffer ·Lestes barbarus

LCleast concern 🪽 Dragonflies & damselflies 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © marcel-silvius · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Andrea Miclet · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
3. © Jerry Lanfear · CC BY 4.0
4. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Irmantas Šalaševičius · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Corinna Herr · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Lestes barbarus is a species of damselfly of the family Lestidae, the spreadwings. Its common names in English include southern emerald damselfly , shy emerald damselfly , and migrant spreadwing .

base stats

NL sightings 228iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,267iNaturalist 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 228 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #27 most seen of the dragonflies & damselflies in NL.
5,267 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1798 (228 years ago).