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Small Red Damselfly

Ceriagrion tenellum

7,101Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
22Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar3
Apr15
May97
Jun1,533
Jul3,267
Aug1,777
Sep242
Oct6
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Bracknell Forest England913
2Cornwall England602
3Devon England548
4Dorset England498
5Pembrokeshire Wales462
6Surrey England289
7Oxfordshire England166
8Norfolk England161
9Ceredigion Wales145
10Carmarthenshire Wales128
11Gwynedd Wales107
12West Berkshire England103
13Powys Wales9
14Somerset England4
15Herefordshire, County of England3
6,236 England860 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 22 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
7,101
Peak month
July
Counties with records
22
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Ceriagrion tenellum
Group
Dragonflies and damselflies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
6,997
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Odonata
Family
Coenagrionidae
Genus
Ceriagrion
Name with authority
Ceriagrion tenellum (de Villers, 1789)
Described
1789
Contributing datasets
16

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1244678 · GBIF 1423259