#3673 · 🪽 dragonflies & damselflies

Common Winter Damselfly

🇳🇱 Bruine Winterjuffer ·Sympecma fusca

LCleast concern 🪽 Dragonflies & damselflies 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Rinaldo R · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Ramunė Vakarė · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
3. © helger · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Corinna Herr · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Corinna Herr · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Philippe Garcelon · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
7. © Suso Tizón · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

what is it?

Sympecma fusca , the common winter damselfly , is a damselfly a member of the Lestidae and related to the emeralds or spreadwings....

base stats

NL sightings 750iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 12,444iNaturalist 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 750 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #12 most seen of the dragonflies & damselflies in NL.
12,444 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Pierre Léonard Vander Linden in 1820 (206 years ago).