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Azure Damselfly

Coenagrion puella

143,944Records since 2000
JunePeak month
124Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan19
Feb22
Mar62
Apr740
May37,305
Jun60,635
Jul32,611
Aug8,838
Sep671
Oct82
Nov39
Dec15

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England10,967
2Suffolk England6,563
3Cambridgeshire England5,096
4Devon England4,078
5Kent England4,008
6Worcestershire England2,952
7Gloucestershire England2,789
8Oxfordshire England2,699
9Pembrokeshire Wales2,542
10Northamptonshire England2,506
11Dorset England2,425
12Powys Wales2,370
13Cornwall England2,352
14Isle of Wight England2,107
15Surrey England1,976
127,582 England5,057 Scotland10,892 Wales245 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 124 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
143,944
Peak month
June
Counties with records
124
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Coenagrion puella
Group
Dragonflies and damselflies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
140,900
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Odonata
Family
Coenagrionidae
Genus
Coenagrion
Name with authority
Coenagrion puella (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
46

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1049823 · GBIF 1421964