#3732 · 🪽 dragonflies & damselflies
White Featherleg
🇳🇱 Witte breedscheenjuffer ·Platycnemis latipes
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Aurea&Ramon · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Aurea&Ramon · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Noa · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Ferran Turmo Gort · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 5. © Tomás Cumbraos Díaz · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Suso Tizón · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 7. © Javier Sánchez Álvarez · CC BY 4.0
- 8. © Ferran Turmo Gort · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 9. © Simon Thevenin · CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
De witte breedscheenjuffer ( Platycnemis latipes ) is een libellensoort uit de familie van de Breedscheenjuffers (Platycnemididae), onderorde juffers (Zygoptera).
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 4,651 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- White Featherleg
- Nederlands
- Witte breedscheenjuffer
- scientific name
- Platycnemis latipes
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Odonata
- family
- Platycnemididae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 4,297
- sightings worldwide
- 4,651
- GBIF records in NL
- 5
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Platycnemididae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 109646, Wikidata Q2855506, GBIF 1423875, Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.