Species Detail - Large Red Damselfly (Pyrrhosoma nymphula) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Dragonfly Ireland".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
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Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Pyrrhosoma nymphula
Large Red Damselfly
NBNSYS0000005599 UnverifiedUnverified
N/A
pynym
(Sulzer, 1776)
insect - dragonfly (Odonata)
Species
3668
736
123
03/08/1892
05/08/2024
5 February (recorded in 1951)
1 October (recorded in 1986)
Centre for Data and Environmental Recording (CEDaR), Dragonfly Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Large Red Damselfly (Pyrrhosoma nymphula), accessed 21 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/187/Species/78141>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)