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Variable Damselfly

Coenagrion pulchellum

9,278Records since 2000
JunePeak month
52Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb5
Mar12
Apr285
May3,534
Jun3,641
Jul1,338
Aug247
Sep16
Oct19
Nov14
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England2,326
2Cambridgeshire England1,135
3Suffolk England860
4Somerset England771
5Dumfries and Galloway Scotland454
6Kent England441
7East Riding of Yorkshire England279
8Nottinghamshire England217
9Isle of Anglesey Wales163
10Lincolnshire England155
11Argyll and Bute Scotland126
12Armagh City, Banbridge and Craig Northern Ireland126
13Worcestershire England114
14Oxfordshire England97
15Bedford England97
8,130 England587 Scotland310 Wales161 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 52 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
9,278
Peak month
June
Counties with records
52
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Coenagrion pulchellum
Group
Dragonflies and damselflies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
8,999
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Odonata
Family
Coenagrionidae
Genus
Coenagrion
Name with authority
Coenagrion pulchellum (Vander Linden, 1825)
Described
1825
Contributing datasets
26

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1029095 · GBIF 1421980