Cheshire Dragonflies & Damselflies

Species List

Anisoptera
 
Common 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
  Lesser Emperor Anax parthenope
 
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
     
Small Red-eyed Damselfly Erythromma viridulum      
 
Blue-tailed Damselfly Ischnura elegans   Emerald Damselfly Lestes sponsa
 
Large Red Damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula   White-legged Damselfly Platycnemis pennipes


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Last updated 16.5.2017