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title: "Yellow-winged Darter"
description: "Sympetrum flaveolum — Insetos e aranhas. The yellow-winged darter (Sympetrum flaveolum) is a dragonfly found in Europe and mid and northern China."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/yellow-winged-darter
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Yellow-winged Darter

> Sympetrum flaveolum — Insetos e aranhas. The yellow-winged darter (Sympetrum flaveolum) is a dragonfly found in Europe and mid and northern China.

- Scientific name: *Sympetrum flaveolum*
- Category: `insects` (Insetos e aranhas)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 11980
- Wikidata: [Q387616](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q387616)
- iNaturalist taxon: [117294](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/117294)

## Names

- en: Yellow-winged Darter
- de: Gefleckte Heidelibelle
- es: Alguacil montano
- fr: Sympétrum jaune d'or
- nl: Geelvlekheidelibel
- pl: Szablak żółty

## Countries with the most observations

RU (9621), FI (538), FR (367), ES (144), BY (126), LT (114), KZ (81), PL (76), UA (71), IT (68), SE (65), EE (46)

## Summary

The yellow-winged darter (Sympetrum flaveolum) is a dragonfly found in Europe and mid and northern China. Breeding is confined to stagnant water, usually in peat bogs. Although not resident in the United Kingdom it occasionally migrates there in some numbers. Such 'Invasion Years' occurred in 1906, 1926, 1945, 1953, and 1995. On each occasion a small breeding colony appeared, but they have invariably died out after a few years.
An almost unmistakable darter, red-bodied in the male, with both sexes having large amounts of saffron-yellow colouration to the basal area of each wing, which is particularly noticeable on…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow-winged_darter

## Photo

![Yellow-winged Darter](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/yellow-winged-darter/medium.jpg)

Photo: Marina Potapova · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/87566230

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/yellow-winged-darter?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).