Leucorrhinia rubicunda
• English name: Ruby Whiteface
• German name: Nordische Moosjungfer
• French name: Leucorrhine rubiconde
• Dutch name: Noordse witsnuitlibel
• Swedish name: Nordisk kärrtrollslända
• Norwegian name: Østlandsk torvlibelle
• Finnish name: Isolampikorento
• Danish name: Nordisk kærguldsmed
• Italian name: N/A
• Czech name: vážka tmavoskvrnná
• Slovenian name: Vresni spreletavec
• Bulgarian name: N/A
Leucorrhinia rubicunda
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 medium-sized species of (central and) north-eastern Europe | |
| Classification | • suborder: Anisoptera (dragonflies); family: Libellulidae | |
| Conservation status | • IUCN Red List Europe: Least Concern | |
| Scientific name | • Leucorrhinia rubicunda (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
| Name genus | • Leucorrhinia: feminine form of an artificial adjective derived from Grk. λευκός = white +; ῥίς; ῥινός = nose | |
| Name species | • rubicunda: from Lat. rubicundus, -a, -um = suffused with red, ruddy ⇒ for the red spots dorsally on the male's abdomen | |
| Distribution | • click or tap the Map button above | |
| Habitat | • bogs, ponds and lakes | |
| Dimensions | • typical body length: 31-38 mm; hindwing: 27-31 mm | |
| Notes | • libellulids are 'sitters': males spend a lot of time perched at the water's edge, waiting for females | |
| ➤ bigger and stouter than the similar L. dubia | ||
| Both sexes | Head | ➤ the face is white |
| • the eyes are brown | ||
| Abdomen | ➤ the appendages are black | |
| Wings | • the wings bear a small dark patch at the base | |
| • the costa is yellow, from the base to the wing tip | ||
| Male | Thorax | • the thorax is brown with a red antehumeral stripe and red spots on the side (in immature males: yellow antehumeral stripe and spots) |
| Abdomen | • the abdomen is black with fairly large red spots on S1-S7 (in immature males: yellow spots) | |
| Female | Thorax | • the thorax is brown with a yellow antehumeral stripe and yellow spots on the side |
| Abdomen | • the abdomen is black with fairly large yellow spots on S1-S7 | |
| Photographs | • most of our photos below were made in the Netherlands and Finland |
LineDrawing: the male's abdomen and the female's abdomen in dorsal view.
