Species Detail - Blue-tailed Damselfly (Ischnura elegans) - 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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Ischnura elegans
Blue-tailed Damselfly
Common Bluetail, Common Ischnura
N/A
isele
(Vander Linden, 1820)
insect - dragonfly (Odonata)
Species
500
205
88
12/07/2000
06/07/2018
16 February (recorded in 1897)
24 December (recorded in 1999)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Dragonfly Records, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Blue-tailed Damselfly (Ischnura elegans), accessed 22 February 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/239/Species/78334>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)