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Checklist Italy: Sardinia; English common names

Below is a checklist of the 43 dragonfly and damselfly species for the area Italy: Sardinia. 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 Italian common names or the scientific names.


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

#English common name
1Azure Bluet (Coenagrion puella) Preview
2Banded Demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens) Preview
3Beautiful Demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo) Preview
4Black Pennant (Selysiothemis nigra) Preview
5Black Percher (Diplacodes lefebvrii) Preview
6Black-Tailed Skimmer (Orthetrum cancellatum) Preview
7Bladetail (Lindenia tetraphylla) Preview
8Blue Chaser (Libellula fulva) Preview
9Blue Emperor (Anax imperator) Preview
10Blue-Eye (Erythromma lindenii) Preview
11Blue-Eyed Hawker (Aeshna affinis) Preview
12Broad Scarlet (Crocothemis erythraea) Preview
13Broad-Bodied Chaser (Libellula depressa) Preview
14Common Darter (Sympetrum striolatum) Preview
15Common Winter Damsel (Sympecma fusca) Preview
16Copper Demoiselle (Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis) Preview
17Dainty Bluet (Coenagrion scitulum) Preview
18Dark Spreadwing (Lestes macrostigma) Preview
19Green Hooktail (Paragomphus genei) Preview
20Green-Eyed Hawker (Aeshna isoceles) Preview
21Hairy Hawker (Brachytron pratense) Preview
22Island Bluetail (Ischnura genei) Preview
23Keeled Skimmer (Orthetrum coerulescens) Preview
24Lesser Emperor (Anax parthenope) Preview
25Long Skimmer (Orthetrum trinacria) Preview
26Mediterranean Bluet (Coenagrion caerulescens) Preview
27Migrant Hawker (Aeshna mixta) Preview
28Migrant Spreadwing (Lestes barbarus) Preview
29Northern Banded Groundling (Brachythemis impartita) Preview
30Orange-Winged Dropwing (Trithemis kirbyi) Preview
31Red-Veined Darter (Sympetrum fonscolombii) Preview
32Ruddy Darter (Sympetrum sanguineum) Preview
33Small Bluetail (Ischnura pumilio) Preview
34Small Red Damsel (Ceriagrion tenellum) Preview
35Small Redeye (Erythromma viridulum) Preview
36Small Spreadwing (Lestes virens) Preview
37Southern Darter (Sympetrum meridionale) Preview
38Southern Skimmer (Orthetrum brunneum) Preview
39Vagrant Emperor (Anax ephippiger) Preview
40Violet Dropwing (Trithemis annulata) Preview
41Western Spectre (Boyeria irene) Preview
42Western Willow Spreadwing (Chalcolestes viridis) Preview
43Yellow-Veined Skimmer (Orthetrum nitidinerve) Preview