Checklist Portugal: mainland; scientific names

Below is a checklist of the 66 dragonfly and damselfly species for the area Portugal: mainland. 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 English common names.

The list below is sorted alphabetically on the species' scientific names. Clicking on a species name in the list allows you to then cycle through the entire checklist for the area Portugal: mainland 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.

#	Scientific name
1	Aeshna affinis Vander Linden, 1820
2	Aeshna cyanea (Müller, 1764)
3	Aeshna isoceles (Müller, 1767)
4	Aeshna juncea (Linnaeus, 1758)
5	Aeshna mixta Latreille, 1805
6	Anax ephippiger (Burmeister, 1839)
7	Anax imperator Leach, 1815
8	Anax parthenope (Selys, 1839)
9	Boyeria irene (Fonscolombe, 1838)
10	Brachythemis impartita (Karsch, 1890)
11	Brachytron pratense (Müller, 1764)
12	Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis (Vander Linden, 1825)
13	Calopteryx virgo (Linnaeus, 1758)
14	Calopteryx xanthostoma (Charpentier, 1825)
15	Ceriagrion tenellum (de Villers, 1789)
16	Chalcolestes viridis (Vander Linden, 1825)
17	Coenagrion caerulescens (Fonscolombe, 1838)
18	Coenagrion mercuriale (Charpentier, 1840)
19	Coenagrion puella (Linnaeus, 1758)
20	Coenagrion pulchellum (Vander Linden, 1825)
21	Coenagrion scitulum (Rambur, 1842)
22	Cordulegaster boltonii (Donovan, 1807)
23	Crocothemis erythraea (Brullé, 1832)
24	Diplacodes lefebvrii (Rambur, 1842)
25	Enallagma cyathigerum (Charpentier, 1840)
26	Erythromma lindenii (Selys, 1840)
27	Erythromma viridulum (Charpentier, 1840)
28	Gomphus graslinii Rambur, 1842
29	Gomphus pulchellus Selys, 1840
30	Gomphus simillimus Selys, 1840
31	Ischnura graellsii (Rambur, 1842)
32	Ischnura pumilio (Charpentier, 1825)
33	Lestes barbarus (Fabricius, 1798)
34	Lestes dryas Kirby, 1890
35	Lestes macrostigma (Eversmann, 1836)
36	Lestes sponsa (Hansemann, 1823)
37	Lestes virens (Charpentier, 1825)
38	Libellula depressa Linnaeus, 1758
39	Libellula fulva Müller, 1764
40	Libellula quadrimaculata Linnaeus, 1758
41	Macromia splendens (Pictet, 1843)
42	Onychogomphus costae Selys, 1885
43	Onychogomphus forcipatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
44	Onychogomphus uncatus (Charpentier, 1840)
45	Orthetrum brunneum (Fonscolombe, 1837)
46	Orthetrum cancellatum (Linnaeus, 1758)
47	Orthetrum chrysostigma (Burmeister, 1839)
48	Orthetrum coerulescens (Fabricius, 1798)
49	Orthetrum nitidinerve (Selys, 1841)
50	Orthetrum trinacria (Selys, 1841)
51	Oxygastra curtisii (Dale, 1834)
52	Pantala flavescens (Fabricius, 1798)
53	Paragomphus genei (Selys, 1841)
54	Platycnemis acutipennis Selys, 1841
55	Platycnemis latipes Rambur, 1842
56	Pyrrhosoma nymphula (Sulzer, 1776)
57	Selysiothemis nigra (Vander Linden, 1825)
58	Sympecma fusca (Vander Linden, 1820)
59	Sympetrum flaveolum (Linnaeus, 1758)
60	Sympetrum fonscolombii (Selys, 1840)
61	Sympetrum meridionale (Selys, 1841)
62	Sympetrum sanguineum (Müller, 1764)
63	Sympetrum striolatum (Charpentier, 1840)
64	Trithemis annulata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1807)
65	Trithemis kirbyi Selys, 1891
66	Zygonyx torridus (Kirby, 1889)