#3731 · 🪽 dragonflies & damselflies

Large Pincertail

🇳🇱 Grote tanglibel ·Onychogomphus uncatus

LCleast concern 🪽 Dragonflies & damselflies 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © salvatore_infanti · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Antonio Rico García · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © daniel_ferreira · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © daniel_ferreira · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Pablo Camba · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © 103917170835602529469 · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Simon Thevenin · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Vincent Le Guehennec · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Onychogomphus uncatus , the large pincertail or blue-eyed hook-tailed dragonfly , is a species of dragonflies belonging to the family Gomphidae....

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,676iNaturalist 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.
4,676 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Toussaint von Charpentier in 1840 (186 years ago).