#3667 · 🪽 dragonflies & damselflies

Ruddy Darter

🇳🇱 Bloedrode Heidelibel ·Sympetrum sanguineum

LCleast concern 🪽 Dragonflies & damselflies 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Hennadii Tarasenko · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © redhat · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © winu · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © frankielee91 · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © alessandrof · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Jaro Schacht · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Thomas Bresson · CC BY 4.0
8. © lemurtaquin · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Ramunė Vakarė · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
10. © Marcello Consolo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

what is it?

The ruddy darter ( Sympetrum sanguineum ) is a European species of dragonfly of the family Libellulidae.

base stats

NL sightings 1,104iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 47,305iNaturalist 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 1,104 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #6 most seen of the dragonflies & damselflies in NL.
47,305 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1764 (262 years ago).