Cheshire Dragonflies & Damselflies

Species List

Anisoptera
 
Commmon Club-tail
Gomphus vulgatissimus
 
Hairy Dragonfly
Brachytron pratense
 
Southern Hawker
Aeshna cyanea
 
Brown Hawker
Aeshna grandis
 
Common Hawker
Aeshna juncea
 
Migrant Hawker
Aeshna mixta
 
Emperor Dragonfly
Anax imperator
  Golden-ringed Dragonfly Cordulegaster boltonii
 
Downy Emerald
Cordulia aenea
  White-faced Darter Leucorrhinia dubia
 
Broad-bodied Chaser Libellula depressa   Four-spotted Chaser Libellula quadrimaculata
 
Black-tailed Skimmer Orthetrum cancellatum   Keeled Skimmer Orthetrum coerulescens
 
Black Darter Sympetrum danae   Yellow-winged Darter Sympetrum flaveolum
 
Red-veined Darter Sympetrum fonscolombei   Ruddy Darter Sympetrum sanguineum
     
Common Darter
Sympetrum striolatum
     

Zygoptera
 
Banded Demoiselle Calopteryx splendens   Beautiful Demoiselle Calopteryx virgo
 
Azure Damselfly Coenagrion puella   Variable Damselfly Coenagrion pulchellum
 
Common Blue Damselfly Enallagma cyathigerum   Red-eyed Damselfly Erythromma najas
 
Blue-tailed Damselfly Ischnura elegans   Emerald Damselfly Lestes sponsa
 
Large Red Damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula   White-legged Damselfly Platycnemis pennipes


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© David Kitching 2008

Last updated 18.7.2008