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Species Account for Lestes dryas

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Lestes dryas  Scarce Emerald Damselfly
Kirby, 1890
Odonata: Lestidae

Lestes dryas

 
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Taxonomic group: dragonflies & damselflies (Odonata) - Available county data

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Status: NS;NT

Essex RDB: Listed
Threat: Regionally Important/Threatened
Records: 176
First Record: 1983
Latest Record: 2024

1992-on hectads: 17
Pre-1992 hectads: 3
Total hectads: 18

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Essex Red Data List comment
Many Thames Estuary sites are threatened by development and/or neglect. Some apparent decline in coastal marshes of N.E. Essex.

Species text
This metallic green damselfly breeds in shallow ponds and lakes, overgrown canals, ditches and temporary pools, generally neutral to slightly alkaline and where there is an abundance of emergent vegetation. In grazing levels it will tolerate brackish conditions and may be found where sea club rush predominates. This was always a scarce species in southern and eastern England, and during the 1950s and 60s it was lost from many of its known sites and it was feared extinct in the 1970s. It was rediscovered in Essex in 1983 and has subsequently been found in Essex, Kent and Norfolk. The majority of sites are coastal or estuarine marshes, in dykes or pools that are often chocked with emergent vegetation. Sea Club-rush seems to be a common feature to these sites and the species is clearly tolerant of brackish water (Benton, 1988). References

Species text last edited on Tue Mar 20th 2007 by user 3

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Broad Habitat Data (based on 54 records with habitat information)

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Structural Habitat Data (based on 36 records with structural habitat information)

Habitat Detail and Method (based on 176 records with habitat detail and method information)

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