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#3731 · 🪽 dragonflies & damselflies

Large Pincertail

🇳🇱 Grote tanglibel ·Onychogomphus uncatus

LCleast concern 🪽 Dragonflies & damselflies 📍 in Europe, not in NL
Large Pincertail, photo 1 of 8
1/8 © salvatore_infanti · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Onychogomphus uncatus , the large pincertail or blue-eyed hook-tailed dragonfly , is a species of dragonflies belonging to the family Gomphidae....

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 4,676iNaturalist 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.
  • 4,676 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by Toussaint von Charpentier in 1840 (186 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Large Pincertail
Nederlands
Grote tanglibel
scientific name
Onychogomphus uncatus
class
Insecta
order
Odonata
family
Gomphidae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
0
sightings in Europe
4,383
sightings worldwide
4,676
GBIF records in NL
0
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1840 by Toussaint von Charpentier

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Gomphidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 133787, Wikidata Q2626923, GBIF 1426246, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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