#3721 · 🪽 dragonflies & damselflies
Small Pincertail
🇳🇱 Kleine tanglibel ·Onychogomphus forcipatus
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what is it?
Onychogomphus forcipatus , the small pincertail or green-eyed hook-tailed dragonfly , is a species of dragonflies belonging to the family Gomphidae.
base stats
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 16 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 11,998 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Small Pincertail
- Nederlands
- Kleine tanglibel
- scientific name
- Onychogomphus forcipatus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Odonata
- family
- Gomphidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 16
- sightings in Europe
- 10,724
- sightings worldwide
- 11,998
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,850
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Gomphidae
#3706 📷 10Common Clubtail
🇳🇱 Beekrombout
Gomphus vulgatissimus
LC 👀 91 in NL
#3709 📷 7Western Clubtail
🇳🇱 Plasrombout
Gomphus pulchellus
NT 👀 81 in NL
#3716 📷 10River Clubtail
🇳🇱 Rivierrombout
Stylurus flavipes
LC 👀 40 in NL
#3731 📷 8Large Pincertail
🇳🇱 Grote tanglibel
Onychogomphus uncatus
LC 🌍 4.7k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 132663, Wikidata Q1746557, GBIF 1426293, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.