AuthorDijkstra, K-D & Lewington R.
Year2006
TitleField Guide to Dragonflies of Britain and Europe
ISBN10: 0953139948
TypeBook/Report
How CompleteAll British and European species.
Source320pp, British Wildlife Publishing
IllustrationsColour paintings and photographs
Errata, Corrigenda & Comments

The book proposes rationalised English names for the European dragonfly fauna. Unfortunately, if accepted, this means changes to some well-established names. For reference here is a list of the changes. (Thanks to Andy Brazil on Dragonflies-UK for compiling this list)

Common Emerald Dragonfly Common Spreadwing
Scarce Emerald Robust Spreadwing
Blue-tailed Damselfly Common Bluetail
Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly Small Bluetail
Common Blue Damselfly Common Bluet
Azure Damselfly Azure Bluet
Irish Damselfly Crescent Bluet
Northern Damselfly Spearhead Bluet
Southern Damselfly Mercury Bluet
Red-eyed Damselfly Large Redeye
Small Red-eyed Damselfly Small Redeye
White-legged Damselfly Blue Featherleg
Norfolk Hawker Green-eyed hawker
Southern Hawker Blue Hawker
Common Hawker Moorland Hawker
Emperor Blue Emperor
Club-tailed Dragonfly Common Clubtail
Golden-ringed Dragonfly Common Goldenring
Scarce Chaser Blue Chaser
White-faced Darter Small Whiteface

Notes & PurposeStatusTaxonEnglishClassification
For identification, contains Distribution mapCurrentODONATAdragonflies and damselfliesAnimalia
Creative Commons License
This website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.

Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioInfo website by Malcolm Storey is licensed under the above Creative Commons Licence.

BioInfo - Wildlife Information (UK)