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[edit]
Family Epiophlebiidae[edit]
- Epiophlebia laidlawi - Himalayan relict dragonfly
Suborder Zygoptera – damselflies[edit]
Family Amphipterygidae – diplebiidae[edit]
Family Calopterygidae – jewelwings[edit]
- Neurobasis chinensis chinensis - stream glory
- Caliphaea confusa
- Vestalis gracilis gracilis - clear-winged forest glory
Family Chlorocyphidae[edit]
- Aristocypha cuneata syn A. bifenestrata
- Aristocypha quadrimaculata
- Aristocypha trifasciata syn A. bifasciata
- Aristo (Para) cypha unimaculata
- Libellago lineata lineata - river heliodor
- Heliocypha biforata
Family Euphaeidae[edit]
- Allophaea (Euphaea) ochracea
- Anisopleura comes
- Anisopleura lestoides
- Anisopleura subplatystyla
- Bayadera indica
- Bayadera longicauda
- Bayadera hyaline
Family Synlestidae[edit]
- Megalestes major - giant green spreadwing
- Megalestes irma
Family Lestidae[edit]
- Indolestes cyaneus
- Lestes dorothea
- Lestes praemorsus praemorsus - sapphire-eyed spreadwing
Family Coenagrionidae[edit]
- Aciagrion hisopa
- Aciagrion olympicum
- Aciagrion pallidum - pale slender dartlet
- Aciagrion occidentale - green-striped slender dartlet
- Aciagrion approximans - Indian violet dartlet[2]
- Agriocnemis clauseni
- Agriocnemis lacteola - milky dartlet
- Agriocnemis pygmaea - pygmy dartlet
- Agriocnemis femina[2] - pinhead dartlet
- Enallagma parvum - azure dartlet
- Paracercion calamorum - dusky lilysquatter
- Paracercion malayanum - Malay lillysquatter
- Ceriagrion azureum - azure marsh dart
- Ceriagrion cerinorubellum - orange-tailed marsh dart [3]
- Ceriagrion fallax fallax - black-tailed marsh dart
- Ceriagrion fallax cerinomelas
- Ceriagrion coromandelianum - Coromandel marsh dart
Ceriagrion coromandelianum (Coromandel marsh dart) - Ceriagrion olivaceum - rusty marsh dart
- Coenagrion exclamationis
- Ischnura rubilio - western golden dartlet
- Ischnura montana
- Ischnura elegans - common bluetail
- Ischnura forcipata - forcipate dartlet
- Ischnura rufostigma - ruby dartlet
- Ischnura nursei - 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
Pseudagrion rubriceps (saffron-faced blue dart) from Phewa Lake, Lakeside, Pokhara - Pseudagrion spencei
Family Platycnemididae – featherlegs[edit]
- Coeliccia renifera
- Calicnemia doonensis carmine
- Calicnemia eximia
- Calicnemia miniata
- Calicnemia mortoni
- Calicnemia nipalica
- Calicnemia pulverulans
- Copera vittata - blue bush dart
- Copera marginipes - yellow bush dart
Family Platystictidae – forest damsels[edit]
- Drepanosticta carmichaeli - Indo-Chinese blue reedtail
Family Protoneuridae[edit]
- Prodasineura autumnalis - black threadtail
- Prodasineura odoneli
Suborder Anisoptera – dragonflies[edit]
Family Gomphidae[edit]
- Anisogomphus bivittatus
- Anisogomphus occipitalis - Shivalik clubtail
- Anisogomphus orites
- Burmagomphus hasimaricus
- Burmagomphus sivalikensis
- Davidius aberrans aberrans
- Davidius delineates
- Ictinogomphus angulosus
- Ictinogomphus kishori
- Ictinogomphus pertinax
- Ictinogomphus rapax - Indian common clubtail
- Macrogomphus montanus
- Macrogomphus seductus
- Microgomphus phewataali[4][5]
- Nepogomphus modestus
- Lamelligomphus biforceps
- Scalmogomphus bistrigatus
- Onychogomphus cerastes
- Nychogomphus duaricus
- Onychogomphus risi
- Onychogomphus schmidti
- Onychogomphus saundersii
- Paragomphus lindgreni
- Paragomphus lineatus
- Perissogomphus stevensi
- Platygomphus dolabratus
- Stylogomphus inglisi
Family Aeshnidae[edit]
- Aeshna petalura petalura
- Anaciaeschna jaspidea - rusty darner
- Anaciaeschna martini
- Anaciaeschna donaldi
- Anax guttatus - blue-tailed green darner
- Anax indicus - lesser green emperor
- Anax nigrofasciatus nigrolineatus
- Anax immaculafrons
- Anax parthenope
- Cephalaeschna acutifrons
- Cephalaeschna klapperichi
- Cephalaeschna masoni
- Cephalaeschna orbifrons
- Cephalaeschna viridifrons
- Gynacantha bayadera - parakeet darner
- Gynacantha incisura
- Gynacantha khasiaca
- Gynacanthaeschna sikkima
- Oligoaeschna martini
- Periaeschna unifasciata
- Polycanthagyna erythromelas
Family Cordulegastridae[edit]
- Anotogaster basalis palampurensis
- Anotogaster gregoryi
- Anotogaster nipalensis
Anotogaster nipalensis - Chlorogomphus atkinsoni
- Chlorogomphus mortoni
- Chlorogomphus olympicus
- Chlorogomphus preciosus
- Chlorogomphus selysi
- Cordulegaster brevistigma brevistigma
- Neallogaster hermionae
- Neallogaster latifrons
- Neallogaster ornata
Family Corduliidae[edit]
- Epophthalmia frontalis frontalis
- Idionyx stevensi
Family Macromiidae[edit]
- Macromia cingulata
- Macromia flavocolorata
- Macromia moorei moorei
- Macromia sombui
- Somatochlora nipalensis
Family Libellulidae[edit]
- Acisoma panorpoides panorpoides - trumpet-tail
- Aethriamanta brevipennis - scarlet marsh hawk[2]
- Brachythemis contaminata - ditch jewel
- Brachydiplax sobrina - little blue marsh hawk
- Barchydiplax chalybea - rufous-backed marsh hawk
- Bradinophyga geminata - granite ghost
- Cratilla lineata - emerald-banded skimmer
- Cratilla metallica
- Crocothemis erythaea - broad skimmer
- Crocothemis servilia - scarlet skimmer
- Diplacodes lefebvreii
- Diplacodes nebulosa - black-tipped ground skimmer
- Diplacodes trivialis - blue ground skimmer
- Libellula quadrimaculata
- Lyriothemis bivittata
- Nannophya pygmaea
- Neurothemis fulvia - fulvous forest skimmer
Female Neurothemis fulvia (fulvous forest skimmer) - Neurothemis intermedia - paddyfield parasol
Neurothemis intermedia (paddyfield parasol) - Neurothemis tullia tullia - pied paddy skimmer
- Orthetrum glaucum- blue marsh hawk
Male Orthetrum glaucum (blue marsh hawk) - Orthetrum japonicum 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
- Orthetrum lineostigma
- Onychothemis testaceum testaceum
- Palpopleura sexmaculata sexmaculata - blue-tailed yellow skimmer
- Pantala flavescens - wandering glider
Pantala flavescens (wandering glider) - Potamarcha congenera - yellow-tailed ashy skimmer
- Pseudotramea prateri
- Rhodothemis rufa - rufous marsh glider
- Rhyothemis plutonia - greater blue-wing
- Rhyothemis triangularis - lesser blue-wing
- Rhyothemis variegata variegata - common picturewing
- Selysiothemis nigra
- Sympetrum commixtum
- Sympetrum decoloratum
- Sympetrum fonscolombei
- Sympetrum haematoneura
- Sympetrum hypomelas
- Sympetrum orientale
- Tholymis tillarga
- Tramea basilaris burmeisteri - red marsh trotter
- Tramea limbata simiata - black marsh trotter
- Tramea virginia
- 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[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ 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[edit]
- "Nepal Odonata". odonatanepal.blogspot.com. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
