Turkish Red Damsel (Ceriagrion georgifreyi)
• English name: Turkish Red Damsel
• German name: Grosse Rubinjungfer
• French name: N/A
• Dutch name: Turkse koraaljuffer
• Swedish name: N/A
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Turkish Red Damsel (Ceriagrion georgifreyi)
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 in Europe occurs on a few Greek islands (e.g. Corfu) and possibly the Greek mainland | |
| Classification | • suborder: Zygoptera (damselflies); family: Coenagrionidae | |
| Conservation status | • IUCN Red List Europe: Critically Endangered | |
| Scientific name | • Ceriagrion georgifreyi Schmidt, 1953 | |
| Distribution | • click or tap the Map button above | |
| Habitat | • small streams | |
| Dimensions | • typical body length: 35-40 mm; hindwing: 17-20 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. tenellum the lower appendages are more slender and the tip of S10 has a row of black spines | |
| Wings | • the pterostigma is uniformly red | |
| Female | Head | • the eyes are brown |
| Thorax | ➤ compared to C. tenellum the two upright lobes just behind the hind margin of the pronotum are high and conspicuous | |
| 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 | • all of our photos below were made in Turkey in 2009 and 2019 |
