Ruddy Darter

Sympetrum sanguineum

(Müller, 1764)

National assessment

Unassessed

Local assessment

Stable

Statistics

Occurrences

3,170 since 2000 3,887 all time

Occupied 1 km squares

306 since 2000 375 all time

Earliest occurrence

1941

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.

Data sources

Local species recorders

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

Lapwings Consultants.

Lincolnshire Biodiversity Partnership (now the GLNP).

Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union.

Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust.

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Odonata records from RSPB Reserves 1970-2009. Licenced under CC-BY https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.

Sustainable Caistor.

Cite this page

GLNP (2025). Sympetrum sanguineum (Müller, 1764) 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=NBNORG0000009005 (Accessed 08 November 2025).