| Dainty Damselfly | |
|---|---|
| Male C. scitulum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Odonata |
| Suborder: | Zygoptera |
| Family: | Coenagrionidae |
| Genus: | Coenagrion |
| Species: | C. scitulum |
| Binomial name | |
| Coenagrion scitulum (Rambur, 1842) |
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Dainty Damselfly Coenagrion scitulum is a blue damselfly of the family Coenagrionidae.
This is a scarce species found mainly in southern Europe, northern Africa and southwest Asia.
The species was formerly recorded as a breeding species in Britain and became locally extinct in the North Sea flood of 1953.[1] It was rediscovered in Kent in 2010.[1][2]