Large Red Damselfly

Pyrrhosoma nymphula

(Sulzer, 1776)

National assessment

Stable Least concern

Local assessment

Stable

National recording scheme

British Dragonfly Society

Associated assemblage

wide-ranging dragonflies and damselflies 3 other species in this assemblage

Last updated

2025-07-31

Statistics

Occurrences

2,413 since 2000 3,259 all time

Occupied 1 km squares

303 since 2000 401 all time

Earliest occurrence

1900

Latest occurrence

2024

Distribution

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Occurrence since 1950

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This chart should not be relied upon for an indication of species status as variations in recording effort can heavily affect the count of occurrences and occupied 1km squares.

References

Daguet, C.A., French, G.C. and Taylor, P. (2008). The Odonata Red Data List for Great Britain. Species Status 11; 1-34. Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough.

Taylor, P., Smallshire, D., Parr, A.J., Brooks, S.J., Cham, S.A., Colver, E.F., Harvey, M., Hepper, D., Isaac, N.J.B., Logie, M.W., McFerran, D., McKenna, F., Nelson, B. & Roy, D.B. 2021. State of Dragonflies in Britain and Ireland 2021. British Dragonfly Society, Old Weston, Huntingdon. https://british-dragonflies.org.uk/recording/state-of-dragonflies-2021/

Data sources

Local species recorders

Ancholme IDB.

Anglian Water.

Biological Records Centre. iRecord (CC-BY). Licenced under CC-BY https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.

British Dragonfly Society Recording Scheme. Dragonfly records from the British Dragonfly Society Recording Scheme. Licenced under CC-BY https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.

Buglife.

Environment Agency.

Environment Agency. Biosys Extract - Central, East, North Lincolnshire and Welland Sub-catchments 2005-2015 (INVERT). Licenced under OGL http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3.

Environment Agency. Biosys Extract - Central, East, North Lincolnshire and Welland Sub-catchments 2016. Licenced under OGL http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3.

Environment Agency. Biosys Extract - Central, East, North Lincolnshire and Welland Sub-catchments 2017. Licenced under OGL http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3.

Environment Agency. Biosys Extract - North Lincolnshire Sub-catchment 1985-2012. Licenced under OGL http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3.

Environment Agency. Freshwater river macroinvertebrate surveys (Biosys). Licenced under OGL http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3.

Greater Lincolnshire Nature Partnership.

Lapwings Consultants.

Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union.

Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust.

Shire Group of Internal Drainage Boards. Shire Group IDB species data 2004 to present. Licenced under OGL http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3.

Sustainable Caistor.

Upper Witham IDB.

Cite this page

Craythorne, H. (2025). Pyrrhosoma nymphula (Sulzer, 1776) species profile, in Greater Lincolnshire Nature Partnership (ed.) Greater Lincolnshire species data bank. Available at: http://glincsson.glnp.org.uk/view?taxon_list_item_key=NBNORG0000008961 (Accessed 08 November 2025).