Checklist France: Corsica; scientific names

Below is a checklist of the 48 dragonfly and damselfly species for the area France: Corsica. It's based on Dijkstra, Schröter & Lewington's Field Guide to the Dragonflies and Damselflies of Britain and Europe (2020), on the Atlas of the European Dragonflies and Damselflies (Boudot & Kalkman (eds.), 2015), and - in a handful of cases - on new area records. Please click here if you would like to see the list below with the French common names or the English common names.

The list below is sorted as per our overall checklist. Clicking on a species name in the list allows you to then cycle through the entire checklist for the area France: Corsica by using the Previous (<==) and Next (==>) buttons at the bottom of each page. If you would prefer to see it sorted alphabetically on the species' scientific names, please click here.

Note: if you believe a species is missing from the checklist below, please do email us at with the new information, together with the relevant source(s) and references. If we agree that the new information is indeed valid, we will update the checklist as soon as possible.

Please click on a species name below to see our 20 photographs of that species.

#	Scientific name
1	Lestes macrostigma (Eversmann, 1836)
2	Lestes barbarus (Fabricius, 1798)
3	Lestes virens (Charpentier, 1825)
4	Chalcolestes viridis (Vander Linden, 1825)
5	Chalcolestes parvidens (Artobolevsky, 1929)
6	Sympecma fusca (Vander Linden, 1820)
7	Calopteryx splendens (Harris, 1780)
8	Calopteryx virgo (Linnaeus, 1758)
9	Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis (Vander Linden, 1825)
10	Ischnura genei (Rambur, 1842)
11	Ischnura pumilio (Charpentier, 1825)
12	Enallagma cyathigerum (Charpentier, 1840)
13	Coenagrion pulchellum (Vander Linden, 1825)
14	Coenagrion puella (Linnaeus, 1758)
15	Coenagrion scitulum (Rambur, 1842)
16	Coenagrion caerulescens (Fonscolombe, 1838)
17	Erythromma viridulum (Charpentier, 1840)
18	Erythromma lindenii (Selys, 1840)
19	Ceriagrion tenellum (de Villers, 1789)
20	Aeshna mixta Latreille, 1805
21	Aeshna affinis Vander Linden, 1820
22	Aeshna isoceles (Müller, 1767)
23	Aeshna cyanea (Müller, 1764)
24	Anax imperator Leach, 1815
25	Anax parthenope (Selys, 1839)
26	Anax ephippiger (Burmeister, 1839)
27	Brachytron pratense (Müller, 1764)
28	Boyeria irene (Fonscolombe, 1838)
29	Paragomphus genei (Selys, 1841)
30	Lindenia tetraphylla (Vander Linden, 1825)
31	Cordulegaster boltonii (Donovan, 1807)
32	Somatochlora meridionalis Nielsen, 1935
33	Somatochlora flavomaculata (Vander Linden, 1825)
34	Libellula quadrimaculata Linnaeus, 1758
35	Libellula depressa Linnaeus, 1758
36	Libellula fulva Müller, 1764
37	Orthetrum cancellatum (Linnaeus, 1758)
38	Orthetrum coerulescens (Fabricius, 1798)
39	Orthetrum brunneum (Fonscolombe, 1837)
40	Orthetrum trinacria (Selys, 1841)
41	Sympetrum sanguineum (Müller, 1764)
42	Sympetrum fonscolombii (Selys, 1840)
43	Sympetrum striolatum (Charpentier, 1840)
44	Sympetrum meridionale (Selys, 1841)
45	Crocothemis erythraea (Brullé, 1832)
46	Trithemis annulata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1807)
47	Brachythemis impartita (Karsch, 1890)
48	Selysiothemis nigra (Vander Linden, 1825)