#3683 · 🪽 dragonflies & damselflies

Small Spreadwing

🇳🇱 Tengere Pantserjuffer ·Lestes virens

LCleast concern 🪽 Dragonflies & damselflies 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Erland Refling Nielsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Ryzhkov Oleg · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Erland Refling Nielsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Eliot Stein-Deffarges J. · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © frankielee91 · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
7. © Anxos Romeo Barreiro · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Lestes virens is a species of damselfly in the family Lestidae, the spreadwings. It is known commonly as the small spreadwing or small emerald spreadwing . It is native to much of Europe and western and central Asia.

base stats

NL sightings 411iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,171iNaturalist 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 411 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #22 most seen of the dragonflies & damselflies in NL.
6,171 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Toussaint von Charpentier in 1825 (201 years ago).