Species Detail - Scarce Emerald Damselfly (Lestes dryas) - 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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Lestes dryas
Scarce Emerald Damselfly
NBNSYS0000005614 UnverifiedUnverified
Threatened Species: Near threatened
ledry
Kirby, 1890
insect - dragonfly (Odonata)
Species
10
7
6
23/06/2009
27/08/2017
19 May (recorded in 2024)
20 September (recorded in 2006)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Dragonfly Records, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Scarce Emerald Damselfly (Lestes dryas), accessed 25 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/239/Species/78155>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)