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Large Red Damselfly

Pyrrhosoma nymphula

143,697Records since 2000
MayPeak month
126Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan35
Feb54
Mar170
Apr10,562
May56,140
Jun49,110
Jul18,572
Aug3,668
Sep858
Oct288
Nov90
Dec55

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland9,154
2Norfolk England7,918
3Devon England3,926
4Pembrokeshire Wales3,831
5Suffolk England3,803
6Cambridgeshire England3,586
7Argyll and Bute Scotland3,528
8Worcestershire England3,164
9Cumbria England2,978
10Powys Wales2,663
11Dumfries and Galloway Scotland2,529
12Gloucestershire England2,490
13Northamptonshire England2,404
14Cornwall England2,282
15Dorset England2,229
105,296 England24,425 Scotland13,495 Wales281 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
143,697
Peak month
May
Counties with records
126
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Pyrrhosoma nymphula
Group
Dragonflies and damselflies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
141,388
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Odonata
Family
Coenagrionidae
Genus
Pyrrhosoma
Name with authority
Pyrrhosoma nymphula (Sulzer, 1776)
Described
1776
Contributing datasets
66

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q511266 · GBIF 1423540