Species Detail - Variable Damselfly (Coenagrion pulchellum) - 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).
Live Map

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Coenagrion pulchellum
Variable Damselfly
NBNSYS0000005605 RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
copul
(Vander Linden, 1825)
Insect - dragonfly (Odonata)
Species
171
89
57
29/05/2006
29/07/2025
8 March (recorded in 1950)
27 September (recorded in 1983)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Dragonfly Records, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Variable Damselfly (Coenagrion pulchellum), accessed 04 June 2026, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/239/Species/78146

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)