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Two new localities of Nehalennia speciosa were found in 2010 in southeastern Poland, in the south of the Sandomierz Basin (Kotlina Sandomierska), in two nature reserves – „Bagno Przecławskie”(50º11’15”N, 21º25’15”E, UTM EA35) and „Torfy” (50º02’38” N, 21º17’45” E, EA24). They form – together with the localities near Błędów and in the nature reserve „Broduszurki” (Bernard, Daraż 2008; Bernard et al. 2009; Miszta, Cuber 2009) – the current southern range limit of the species distribution in Poland and Eastern Europe. Far outside this range, only a highly isolated and relict locality in the Southern Carpathians in the south of Romania is known (Manci 2009, 2010). Other localities of N. speciosa situated to the south of the current species range – in the southern Ukraine, Slovakia and northern Romania – are only historical as they have not been confirmed during the last half-century (Bernard, Wildermuth 2005; Šácha 2010). At the new localities, N. speciosa inhabits old peat excavations, with the water bodies abounding with Sphagnum sp. and Carex rostrata, and bounded by Molinia coerulea. It is typical of N. speciosa in the marginal zone of its distribution range to inhabit the partly secondary (i.e. anthropogenic) habitats and to use the vegetation composed of these species (cf. Bernard, Wildermuth 2005; Bernard, Daraż 2008).