Koraaljuffer (Ceriagrion tenellum)
• English name: Small Red Damsel
• German name: Zarte Rubinjungfer
• French name: Agrion délicat
• Dutch name: Koraaljuffer
• Swedish name: Mindre blodflickslända
• Norwegian name: N/A
• Finnish name: N/A
• Danish name: N/A
• Italian name: Scintilla zamperosse
• Czech name: N/A
• Slovenian name: Rdeči voščenec
• Bulgarian name: N/A
Koraaljuffer
(Ceriagrion tenellum)
Not present
Present before 1990
Present after 1990
Present before and after 1990
Present after 2015
Map data based on J.-P. Boudot & V. J. Kalkman (eds.),
Atlas of the European Dragonflies and Damselflies
| General | • a small species with red eyes and a red abdomen which is most common in southern Europe | |
| Classification | • suborder: Zygoptera (damselflies); family: Coenagrionidae | |
| Conservation status | • IUCN Red List Europe: Least Concern | |
| Scientific name | • Ceriagrion tenellum (de Villers, 1789) | |
| Name genus | • Ceriagrion: probably a reference to the type species Agrion cerinorubellum Brauer, 1865 | |
| Name species | • tenellum: from Lat. tener, dimin. tenellus, -a, -um = delicate, tender | |
| Distribution | • click or tap the Map button above | |
| Habitat | • small streams but also lakes and bogs | |
| Dimensions | • typical body length: 25-35 mm; hindwing: 15-21 mm | |
| Both sexes | Thorax | • the antehumeral stripe is very narrow or even absent |
| Legs | ➤ the legs are (fleshy) red | |
| Male | Head | • the eyes are red |
| Abdomen | ➤ compared to C. georgifreyi the lower appendages are stubbier and the tip of S10 lacks a row of black spines | |
| Wings | • the pterostigma is uniformly red | |
| Female | Head | • the eyes are brown |
| Thorax | ➤ compared to C. georgifreyi the two upright lobes just behind the hind margin of the pronotum are low and inconspicuous | |
| Abdomen | • the amount of red on the abdomen may be very limited or even absent (as it is in the form melanogastrum) | |
| Wings | • the pterostigma is uniformly brown | |
| Photographs | • nearly all of our photos below were made in Tuscany and the south of Italy |
