Dwergjuffer (Nehalennia speciosa)
• English name: Sedgling
• German name: Zwerglibelle
• French name: Déesse précieuse
• Dutch name: Dwergjuffer
• Swedish name: Dvärgflickslända
• Norwegian name: N/A
• Finnish name: Kääpiötytönkorento
• Danish name: Dværg-vandnymfe
• Italian name: Codazzurra pigmea
• Czech name: šidélko lesklé
• Slovenian name: Kresnična palčica
• Bulgarian name: N/A
Dwergjuffer (Nehalennia speciosa)
Map data based on J.-P. Boudot & V. J. Kalkman (eds.),
Atlas of the European Dragonflies and Damselflies
| General | • a tiny and very rare species which occurs mainly in north-eastern Europe | |
| Classification | • suborder: Zygoptera (damselflies); family: Coenagrionidae | |
| Conservation status | • IUCN Red List Europe: Near Threatened | |
| Scientific name | • Nehalennia speciosa (Charpentier, 1840) | |
| Distribution | • click or tap the Map button above | |
| Notes | • in old females the sky-blue colour on the head, thorax and abdomen is replaced by rusty brown | |
| Habitat | • bogs and acidic lakes with a reasonably dense vegetation (e.g. sedges) | |
| Dimensions | • typical body length: 24-26 mm; hindwing: 11-16 mm | |
| Both sexes | Head | • instead of postocular spots there is a curved sky-blue line |
| Thorax | • the upper part of the thorax is metallic (bronze) green; the lower part is (pale) sky blue | |
| Abdomen | • the top of the slender abdomen is metallic (bronze) green on S1-S7 and mostly sky blue on S8-S10 | |
| Wings | • the wings are relatively short, with a large whitish or beige pterostigma | |
| Photographs | • all of our photos below were made in Bavaria |
