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Small Red-eyed Damselfly

Erythromma viridulum

15,356Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
67Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May37
Jun740
Jul5,942
Aug7,421
Sep1,063
Oct12
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England1,363
2Suffolk England985
3Cambridgeshire England793
4Kent England597
5Milton Keynes England590
6Isle of Wight England523
7Bedford England414
8Oxfordshire England350
9Devon England334
10Nottinghamshire England317
11Northamptonshire England301
12Essex England265
13Surrey England239
14North Yorkshire England234
15East Riding of Yorkshire England223
15,036 England318 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 67 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
15,356
Peak month
August
Counties with records
67
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Erythromma viridulum
Group
Dragonflies and damselflies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
15,145
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Odonata
Family
Coenagrionidae
Genus
Erythromma
Name with authority
Erythromma viridulum (Charpentier, 1840)
Described
1840
Contributing datasets
10

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1420700 · GBIF 1423011