The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·104429SpeciesInsecta8,915 field observations
  1. Animals
  2. ›Arthropods
  3. ›Hexapods
  4. ›Insects
  5. ›Winged and Once-winged Insects
  6. ›Dragonflies and Damselflies
  7. ›Damselflies
  8. ›Lestoidea
  9. ›Spreadwings and allies
  10. ›Lestes
Emerald Spreadwing
Plate 1 of 12. (c) BJ Stacey, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by BJ Stacey · via iNaturalist

Emerald Spreadwing

Lestes dryas

Lestes dryas is a species of damselfly in the family Lestidae, the spreadwings. Its common names include emerald spreadwing, scarce emerald damselfly and robust spreadwing. An alternate name in Ireland is the turlough spreadwing.

Continue reading on Wikipedia
§·

Listen

Looking for field recordings…

§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Lestes dryas in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 104429.