Lestes dryas (Kirby, 1890)

Pompilio, Lucia & Mosini, Andrea, 2021, The Odonate fauna of Val Grande National Park (Insecta: Odonata), Fragmenta entomologica 53 (1), pp. 25-42 : 31

4. Lestes dryas (Kirby, 1890)

Conservation and breeding status: LC (EU), LC (IT), LC (MED), NB

This holarctic lentic damselfly was recorded in LPO (10) and PDS (15); breeding was not confirmed, though observation of up to 4 males during three consecutive counts in PDS (11 and 27 Jul 2016, 19 Aug 2016) makes reproduction likely. Though considered quite common in the Western Italian Alps ( Siesa 2017), Boano et al. (2007) reported a rather fragmented occurrence in Piedmont, which was confirmed by the preliminary Italian Atlas ( Riservato et al. 2014c). A similar pattern of distribution was recorded in Switzerland, where L. dryas was not observed in the adjacent Canton Tessin ( Wildermuth et al. 2005).