Pasasti bleščavec (Calopteryx splendens)
• English name: Banded Demoiselle
• German name: Gebänderte Prachtlibelle
• French name: Caloptéryx éclatant
• Dutch name: Weidebeekjuffer
• Swedish name: Blåbandad jungfruslända
• Norwegian name: Blåbåndvannymfe
• Finnish name: Immenkorento
• Danish name: Blåbåndet pragtvandnymfe
• Italian name: Splendente comune
• Czech name: motýlice lesklá
• Slovenian name: Pasasti bleščavec
• Bulgarian name: Поясно ромолниче
Pasasti bleščavec (Calopteryx splendens)
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 large species, common throughout much of Europe but absent from the south of France and Iberia and from much of Scandinavia | |
| Classification | • suborder: Zygoptera (damselflies); family: Calopterygidae | |
| Conservation status | • IUCN Red List Europe: Least Concern | |
| Scientific name | • Calopteryx splendens (Harris, 1780) | |
| Distribution | • click or tap the Map button above | |
| Habitat | • fairly wide, slow-flowing and sunny streams and rivers | |
| Dimensions | • typical body length: 45-48 mm; hindwing: 28-31 mm | |
| Notes | • its flight is fluttery and butterfly-like | |
| • males engage in a dazzling display flight to attract females into their territories | ||
| • to demonstrate the suitability of an ovipositing site males sit down on the water and allow the current to carry them by that site while 'flashing' the coloured underside of their abdomen tips at the females | ||
| • both males and females hold territories at the water | ||
| Both sexes | Wings | • the wings are fairly pointed and narrow |
| Male | Thorax | • the thorax is metallic dark blue |
| Abdomen | • the abdomen is metallic dark blue | |
| • the underside of the last three abdominal segments is yellowish white | ||
| Wings | • the wings lack a (pseudo-)pterostigma | |
| ➤ a dark band runs through the wings and extends from the node almost all the way through to the wing tip | ||
| Female | Thorax | • the thorax is metallic dark green |
| Abdomen | ➤ the top of the abdomen (including the last three segments) is metallic dark green | |
| Wings | ➤ the wings are translucent green and bear a white pseudopterostigma close to the wing tip | |
| Photographs | • many of our photos below were made in Tuscany and show the subspecies C. s. caprai | |
| • those photos made on Crete show the subspecies C. s. cretensis | ||
| • those photos made in Turkey show the subspecies C. s. amasina | ||
| • two of the photos below show androchrome females, i.e. females with male colouration (but with a white pseudopterostigma) |
LineDrawing: the female's head and thorax in lateral view.
