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Common Blue Damselfly

Enallagma cyathigerum

163,490Records since 2000
JunePeak month
127Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan29
Feb8
Mar40
Apr686
May21,074
Jun49,537
Jul49,347
Aug30,569
Sep8,078
Oct590
Nov51
Dec36

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England6,561
2Suffolk England5,527
3Cambridgeshire England5,504
4Northamptonshire England4,563
5Oxfordshire England4,508
6Highland Scotland4,168
7North Yorkshire England3,474
8Kent England3,321
9Gloucestershire England3,274
10Devon England2,986
11West Berkshire England2,910
12Nottinghamshire England2,808
13Bedford England2,803
14East Riding of Yorkshire England2,608
15Worcestershire England2,533
134,800 England17,429 Scotland10,868 Wales266 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 127 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
163,490
Peak month
June
Counties with records
127
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Enallagma cyathigerum
Also known as
Common Blue Damselfly, Common Bluet
Group
Dragonflies and damselflies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
160,187
Conservation designations
Global Red List (JNCC), GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Odonata
Family
Coenagrionidae
Genus
Enallagma
Name with authority
Enallagma cyathigerum (Charpentier, 1840)
Described
1840
Contributing datasets
66

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q608908 · GBIF 5051273