List of Odonata of Nepal
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The following is a list of Odonata of Nepal. One hundred and eighty-five species from seventeen families are listed.
This list is primarily based on Graham Vick's 1989 list[1] with some recent additions and a modernized classification.
Suborder Anisozygoptera[]
Family Epiophlebiidae[]
- Epiophlebia laidlawi - Himalayan relict dragonfly
Suborder Zygoptera – damselflies[]
Family Amphipterygidae – diplebiidae[]
Family Calopterygidae – jewelwings[]
- Neurobasis chinensis chinensis - stream glory
- Vestalis gracilis gracilis - clear-winged forest glory
Family Chlorocyphidae[]
- syn A. bifenestrata
- syn A. bifasciata
- Libellago lineata lineata - river heliodor
Family Euphaeidae[]
Family Synlestidae[]
- - giant green spreadwing
Family Lestidae[]
- Indolestes cyaneus
- Lestes dorothea
- Lestes praemorsus praemorsus - sapphire-eyed spreadwing
Family Coenagrionidae[]
- Aciagrion hisopa
- - pale slender dartlet
- Aciagrion occidentale - green-striped slender dartlet
- Aciagrion approximans - Indian violet dartlet[2]
- - milky dartlet
- Agriocnemis pygmaea - pygmy dartlet
- Agriocnemis femina[2] - pinhead dartlet
- Enallagma parvum - azure dartlet
- Paracercion calamorum - dusky lilysquatter
- Paracercion malayanum - Malay lillysquatter
- - azure marsh dart
- Ceriagrion cerinorubellum - orange-tailed marsh dart [3]
- fallax - black-tailed marsh dart
- cerinomelas
- Ceriagrion coromandelianum - Coromandel marsh dart
- Ceriagrion olivaceum - rusty marsh dart
- Ischnura rubilio - western golden dartlet
- Ischnura elegans - common bluetail
- - forcipate dartlet
- - ruby dartlet
- - pixie dartlet
- Onychargia atrocyana - black marsh dart
- Pseudagrion australasiae
- Pseudagrion decorum - three-lined dart
- Pseudagrion microcephalum - blue grass dart
- Pseudagrion rubriceps - saffron-faced blue dart
Family Platycnemididae – featherlegs[]
- Copera vittata - blue bush dart
- Copera marginipes - yellow bush dart
Family Platystictidae – forest damsels[]
- - Indo-Chinese blue reedtail
Family Protoneuridae[]
- - black threadtail
Suborder Anisoptera – dragonflies[]
Family Gomphidae[]
- - Shivalik clubtail
- Burmagomphus sivalikensis
- aberrans
- Ictinogomphus rapax - Indian common clubtail
- [4][5]
- Paragomphus lineatus
Family Aeshnidae[]
- petalura
- Anaciaeschna jaspidea - rusty darner
- Anaciaeschna martini
- Anaciaeschna donaldi
- Anax guttatus - blue-tailed green darner
- Anax indicus - lesser green emperor
- nigrolineatus
- Anax parthenope
- Cephalaeschna acutifrons
- Gynacantha bayadera - parakeet darner
Family Cordulegastridae[]
- brevistigma
Family Corduliidae[]
- Epophthalmia frontalis frontalis
Family Macromiidae[]
Family Libellulidae[]
- Acisoma panorpoides panorpoides - trumpet-tail
- Aethriamanta brevipennis - scarlet marsh hawk[2]
- Brachythemis contaminata - ditch jewel
- Brachydiplax sobrina - little blue marsh hawk
- - rufous-backed marsh hawk
- - granite ghost
- Cratilla lineata - emerald-banded skimmer
- Cratilla metallica
- - broad skimmer
- Crocothemis servilia - scarlet skimmer
- Diplacodes nebulosa - black-tipped ground skimmer
- Diplacodes trivialis - blue ground skimmer
- Libellula quadrimaculata
- Nannophya pygmaea
- Neurothemis fulvia - fulvous forest skimmer
- Neurothemis intermedia - paddyfield parasol
- Neurothemis tullia tullia - pied paddy skimmer
- Orthetrum glaucum- blue marsh hawk
- internum
- Orthetrum luzonicum - tri-coloured marsh hawk
- Orthetrum pruinosum neglectum - crimson-tailed marsh hawk
- Orthetrum coerulescens anceps - keeled skimmer
- Orthetrum sabina - green marsh hawk
- Orthetrum taeniolatum - small skimmer
- Orthetrum triangulare triangulare - blue-tailed forest hawk
- testaceum
- Palpopleura sexmaculata sexmaculata - blue-tailed yellow skimmer
- Pantala flavescens - wandering glider
- - yellow-tailed ashy skimmer
- Rhodothemis rufa - rufous marsh glider
- - greater blue-wing
- Rhyothemis triangularis - lesser blue-wing
- Rhyothemis variegata variegata - common picturewing
- Selysiothemis nigra
- Sympetrum fonscolombei
- Tholymis tillarga
- Tramea basilaris burmeisteri - red marsh trotter
- Tramea limbata simiata - black marsh trotter
- Trithemis aurora - crimson marsh glider
- Trithemis festiva - black stream glider
- Trithemis pallidinervis - long-legged marsh glider
- Urothemis signata signata - greater crimson glider
- Zygonyx iris - emerald cascader
See also[]
- List of butterflies of Nepal
- Cerambycidae of Nepal
- Zygaenidae of Nepal
- Wildlife of Nepal
References[]
- ^ Vick, Graham (1989). "List of the dragonflies recorded from Nepal, with a summary of their altitudinal distribution (Odonata)". Opuscula zoologica fluminensia. 43: 1–21.
- ^ a b c Conniff, Karen L.; Aryal, Milan; K. C., Sajan & Heijden, Antonie V. D. (2020). "New additions to the checklist of dragonflies and damselflies of Nepal". Agrion. 24 (1): 21–523.
- ^ K.C., Sajan; Gurung, Juddha Bahadur (2020). "Records of dragonfies and damselfies (Insecta: Odonata) of Dipang Lake, with two new records to Nepal". International Journal of Zoology Studies. 12 (8): 15955–15961.
- ^ Conniff, Karen & Limbu, Mahendra Singh (2018). "Description of Microgomphus phewataali sp. nov. from Nepal (Odonata: Gomphidae)" (PDF). Odonatologica. 47 (3/4): 277–288.
- ^ Awale, Sonia. "Project Dragonfly".
Further reading[]
- "Nepal Odonata". odonatanepal.blogspot.com. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
Categories:
- Odonata of Asia
- Lists of Odonata by location
- Lists of biota of Nepal
- Insects of Nepal