Coenagrion mercuriale

Coenagrion mercuriale
Male, Parsonage Moor, Oxfordshire
Female, Dry Sandford Pit, Oxfordshire
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Suborder: Zygoptera
Family: Coenagrionidae
Genus: Coenagrion
Species:
C. mercuriale
Binomial name
Coenagrion mercuriale
(Charpentier, 1840)
immature male Parsonage Moor, Oxfordshire

Coenagrion mercuriale, the southern damselfly, is a species of damselfly in the family Coenagrionidae. It is found in Algeria, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Morocco, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, and the United Kingdom. Its natural habitats are rivers and freshwater springs. It is threatened by habitat loss.

The specific part of the scientific name, mercuriale, is because of the distinctive markings on the second segment of the abdomen that resembles the astrological symbol for the planet Mercury - ☿. [2] This also gives the species an alternative common name of mercury bluet.[3]

Habitat

They require areas of open vegetation, mixed with slow flowing water in which to lay their eggs.

The larvae spend 2 years underwater before emerging as damselflies.

Status in the United Kingdom

It is thought that 25% of the world population exists within the United Kingdom but it has declined by 30% since 1960 due to changes in grazing, land drainage and water abstraction.

Places where they are found include the New Forest, Hampshire, Oxfordshire and the Preseli Hills, Pembrokeshire, where work was being carried out in 2015 to improve habitat,[4] work that was reported in 2020 as successful.[5] In 2009, 500 adults were captured and released in the Venn Ottery nature reserve in Devon. This nature reserve is owned and managed by the Devon Wildlife Trust and grazing has been re-introduced there to help encourage this species which had not been recorded there since 1988.[6]

The species is protected under Schedule 5 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.[7]

  • male, Crockford Stream, Hampshire no spur on S9
    male, Crockford Stream, Hampshire
    no spur on S9
  • male, Crockford Stream, Hampshire two spurs on S9
    male, Crockford Stream, Hampshire
    two spurs on S9

Sources

  1. ^ De Knijf, G., Billqvist, M., van Grunsven, R.H.A., Prunier, F., Vinko, D. & Boudot, J.-P. (2023). "Coenagrion mercuriale". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2023: e.T203582437A220527463. Retrieved 24 October 2024.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Costantino D’Antonio and Francesca Vegliante. "Derivatio nominis libellularum europæarum" (PDF) (in Italian). Retrieved 3 August 2010.
  3. ^ "Checklist, English common names". DragonflyPix.com. Archived from the original on 4 December 2012. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
  4. ^ "Conservationists restore habitat for endangered species". Western Telegraph. 12 April 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  5. ^ "Southern damselfly boosted in Pembrokeshire by 'fantastic' conservation". BBC. 24 September 2020. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  6. ^ "Southern damselflies released into Devon nature reserve". wildlifeextra.com. Retrieved 3 August 2010.
  7. ^ "Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981". Government of the United Kingdom. Archived from the original on 30 August 2009. Retrieved 15 October 2010.

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