#3670 · 🪽 dragonflies & damselflies
Blue Featherleg
🇳🇱 Blauwe Breedscheenjuffer ·Platycnemis pennipes
📍 7165 Rietmolen, Nederland
📍 Groesbeek, Nederland
📍 5854 Bergen, Niederlande
📍 5731 Mierlo, Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Владимир Семашко · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Matthieu Gauvain · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © redhat · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Mishanook · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Jakob Fahr · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Marcello Consolo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 7. 7165 Rietmolen, Nederland:© Bas van Hulst-Kuiper · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 5854 Bergen, Niederlande:© Peter Bönnen · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. 5731 Mierlo, Netherlands:© Erwin Sieben · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The white-legged damselfly or blue featherleg ( Platycnemis pennipes ) is a damselfly of slow-flowing, muddy waters. It occurs from the Atlantic to Siberia and is often abundant throughout its range.
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 857 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #9 most seen of the dragonflies & damselflies in NL.
- 47,512 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Peter Simon Pallas in 1771 (255 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Blue Featherleg
- Nederlands
- Blauwe Breedscheenjuffer
- scientific name
- Platycnemis pennipes
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Odonata
- family
- Platycnemididae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 857
- sightings in Europe
- 43,872
- sightings worldwide
- 47,512
- GBIF records in NL
- 95,843
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1771 by Peter Simon Pallas
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Platycnemididae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 109650, Wikidata Q882485, GBIF 1423859, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.