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Common Darter

Sympetrum striolatum

200,125Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
126Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan21
Feb11
Mar16
Apr43
May652
Jun8,143
Jul35,779
Aug68,915
Sep55,731
Oct22,212
Nov5,085
Dec108

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England12,754
2Suffolk England8,284
3Cambridgeshire England7,122
4Kent England5,547
5Oxfordshire England3,908
6North Yorkshire England3,860
7Cornwall England3,645
8East Riding of Yorkshire England3,638
9Devon England3,577
10Gloucestershire England3,513
11Pembrokeshire Wales3,296
12Lincolnshire England3,153
13Cumbria England3,124
14Highland Scotland3,008
15Nottinghamshire England2,882
171,839 England13,911 Scotland14,012 Wales191 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 126 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
200,125
Peak month
August
Counties with records
126
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Sympetrum striolatum
Group
Dragonflies and damselflies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
195,647
Conservation designations
Global Red List (JNCC), GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Odonata
Family
Libellulidae
Genus
Sympetrum
Name with authority
Sympetrum striolatum (Charpentier, 1840)
Described
1840
Contributing datasets
55

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1548239 · GBIF 1428345