What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Azure Damselfly been recorded?

Coenagrion puella occurrence evidence comes from 23,066 records in 33 countries and territories, from 1890 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Azure Damselfly
Azure Damselfly — Photo (display-sized rendition): Jörg Hempel · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Wikimedia Commons
InsectaOdonataCoenagrionidaeCoenagrion

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

23,066 records across 33 countries and territories, 1890–2026.

Coenagrion puella · GBIF taxon key 1421964

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-23. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: June.

3 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

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When it is recorded

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Peak month: June. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18902026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Azure Damselfly has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Azure Damselfly. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Sweden 10,209
Germany 4,235
Belgium 3,463
United Kingdom 2,673
Luxembourg 729
Austria 693
Russia 212
France 199
Netherlands 109
Denmark 107
Spain 102
Switzerland 87
Romania 44
Ireland 29
Italy 28
Poland 25
Estonia 20
Ukraine 18
Finland 14
Croatia 14
Lithuania 10
Hungary 7
Czechia 6
Bulgaria 5
Belarus 4
Georgia 4
Türkiye 4
Azerbaijan 3
Bosnia & Herzegovina 3
Greece 3
Kazakhstan 3
Slovenia 3
Liechtenstein 1

Related animals

Others in the family Coenagrionidae.

Blue-tailed Damselfly
Blue-tailed Damselfly
21,351 records
Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.