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

Terrestrial Map - 10km

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

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 RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
pynym
(Sulzer, 1776)
Insect - dragonfly (Odonata)
Species
733
307
105
05/07/1997
21/08/2025
5 February (recorded in 1951)
1 October (recorded in 1986)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Dragonfly Records, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Large Red Damselfly (Pyrrhosoma nymphula), accessed 04 June 2026, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/239/Species/78141

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)