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There are 57 recorded species of Odonata in Britain, made up of 21 damselflies (suborder Zygoptera) and 36 dragonflies (suborder Anisoptera). Of these, 42 species (17 damselflies and 25 dragonflies) are resident breeders, and the remainder are either extinct species, or vagrants - in respect of the latter, this list follows the decisions of the Odonata Records Committee.
Enallagma cyathigerum (common blue damselfly or common bluet) is a species found mainly between latitudes 40°N and 72°N; [2] It is widely distributed in the Palearctic, common in all European countries (including Portugal, Spain, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Poland, etc.) and in Asia in Turkey, Iran, Russia, and South Korea. [1]
Damselfly is the title of a 2012 novel in the Faeble series by S. L. Naeole [70] and of a 2018 novel by Chandra Prasad. [71] Modern poems with the damselfly as a subject include a 1994 poem by August Kleinzahler, which contains the lines "And that blue there, cobalt / a moment, then iridescent, / fragile as a lady's pin / hovering above the ...
Coenagrion hastulatum, the northern damselfly or spearhead bluet, is a damselfly in the family Coenagrionidae. The species is widespread and common in northern Eurasia but is restricted to elevated or bog-like sites towards the west and south. [2] In Britain, it is confined to a few small lochans in Scotland. [3]
The Norfolk damselfly, ... is a species of blue damselfly of the family Coenagrionidae native to Eurasia. Name ... 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T60313A12344566.en
The dainty damselfly was formerly recorded as a breeding species in Britain and had thought to have become locally extinct after the North Sea flood of 1953. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] There was a large viable population in East Anglia , but after the flood many seasons passed by without any sightings of the dainty damselfly leading to the conclusion that ...
This species is found all year round as it overwinter as an adult. [6] It usually blends in with the dried grass stalks in which it overwinters. It is one of only two species of European dragonflies that overwinter as adult insects, the other being the related Sympecma paedisca .
The banded demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens) is a species of damselfly belonging to the family Calopterygidae. [1] [3] It is often found along slow-flowing streams and rivers. It is a Eurasian species occurring from the Atlantic coast eastwards to Lake Baikal and northwestern China. [3] This is a common species throughout much of its range. [1]