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#3745 · 🪽 dragonflies & damselflies

Variegated Meadowhawk

Sympetrum corruptum

LCleast concern 🪽 Dragonflies & damselflies 📍 outside Europe
Variegated Meadowhawk, photo 1 of 7
1/7 © Steve Berardi · CC BY-SA 4.0

what is it?

The variegated meadowhawk ( Sympetrum corruptum ) is a dragonfly of the family Libellulidae, native to North America.

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 41,609iNaturalist 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.
  • 41,609 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named in 1861 (165 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Variegated Meadowhawk
scientific name
Sympetrum corruptum
class
Insecta
order
Odonata
family
Libellulidae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
0
sightings worldwide
41,609
GBIF records in NL
0
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1861

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

relatives· Libellulidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 68138, Wikidata Q2740755, GBIF 1428276, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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