Common Club-tail

Description:

The Common Club-tail (Gomphus vulgatissimus) is a medium sized species of dragonfly in the family Gomphidae. It is found in most of Europe and is present now in the south of France. Its natural habitat are clean, streaming rivers and creeks with sandy soil. It can be seen from mid-April in the south to August. Once they hatched out of water, they live shortly. As the common name suggests, this species has a distinctive club-shaped abdomen.

Habitat:

The common Clubtail mainly inhabited rivers of the lowlands and the level of wider streams through rivers and canals to large streams. Addition, however, the shore areas of lakes and water bodies such as mining excavators are used as pond habitats. The most important factor for the colonization of all habitats in this case represents relatively fine, usually sandy or silty substrate as habitat for the larvae, even very small scale. Much less important is the frequently mentioned factor of the moving water for the development of the species is likely to be because not only surf the shores of larger lakes are populated in standing water. When extracting waters only groundwater connection seems to have some significance.