Checklist Bulgaria; scientific names

Below is a checklist of the 71 dragonfly and damselfly species for the area Bulgaria. 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 Bulgarian common names or 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 Bulgaria 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	Aeshna subarctica Walker, 1908
7	Anax ephippiger (Burmeister, 1839)
8	Anax imperator Leach, 1815
9	Anax parthenope (Selys, 1839)
10	Brachytron pratense (Müller, 1764)
11	Caliaeschna microstigma (Schneider, 1845)
12	Calopteryx splendens (Harris, 1780)
13	Calopteryx virgo (Linnaeus, 1758)
14	Chalcolestes parvidens (Artobolevsky, 1929)
15	Chalcolestes viridis (Vander Linden, 1825)
16	Coenagrion hastulatum (Charpentier, 1825)
17	Coenagrion ornatum (Selys, 1850)
18	Coenagrion puella (Linnaeus, 1758)
19	Coenagrion pulchellum (Vander Linden, 1825)
20	Coenagrion scitulum (Rambur, 1842)
21	Cordulegaster bidentata Selys, 1843
22	Cordulegaster heros Theischinger, 1979
23	Cordulegaster insignis Schneider, 1845
24	Cordulegaster picta Selys, 1854
25	Cordulia aenea (Linnaeus, 1758)
26	Crocothemis erythraea (Brullé, 1832)
27	Enallagma cyathigerum (Charpentier, 1840)
28	Epallage fatime (Charpentier, 1840)
29	Epitheca bimaculata (Charpentier, 1825)
30	Erythromma lindenii (Selys, 1840)
31	Erythromma najas (Hansemann, 1823)
32	Erythromma viridulum (Charpentier, 1840)
33	Gomphus vulgatissimus (Linnaeus, 1758)
34	Ischnura elegans (Vander Linden, 1820)
35	Ischnura pumilio (Charpentier, 1825)
36	Lestes barbarus (Fabricius, 1798)
37	Lestes dryas Kirby, 1890
38	Lestes macrostigma (Eversmann, 1836)
39	Lestes sponsa (Hansemann, 1823)
40	Lestes virens (Charpentier, 1825)
41	Leucorrhinia dubia (Vander Linden, 1825)
42	Leucorrhinia pectoralis (Charpentier, 1825)
43	Libellula depressa Linnaeus, 1758
44	Libellula fulva Müller, 1764
45	Libellula quadrimaculata Linnaeus, 1758
46	Lindenia tetraphylla (Vander Linden, 1825)
47	Onychogomphus forcipatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
48	Ophiogomphus cecilia (Fourcroy, 1785)
49	Orthetrum albistylum (Selys, 1848)
50	Orthetrum brunneum (Fonscolombe, 1837)
51	Orthetrum cancellatum (Linnaeus, 1758)
52	Orthetrum coerulescens (Fabricius, 1798)
53	Pantala flavescens (Fabricius, 1798)
54	Platycnemis pennipes (Pallas, 1771)
55	Pyrrhosoma nymphula (Sulzer, 1776)
56	Selysiothemis nigra (Vander Linden, 1825)
57	Somatochlora arctica (Zetterstedt, 1840)
58	Somatochlora borisi Marinov, 2001
59	Somatochlora flavomaculata (Vander Linden, 1825)
60	Somatochlora meridionalis Nielsen, 1935
61	Somatochlora metallica (Vander Linden, 1825)
62	Stylurus flavipes (Charpentier, 1825)
63	Sympecma fusca (Vander Linden, 1820)
64	Sympetrum depressiusculum (Selys, 1841)
65	Sympetrum flaveolum (Linnaeus, 1758)
66	Sympetrum fonscolombii (Selys, 1840)
67	Sympetrum meridionale (Selys, 1841)
68	Sympetrum pedemontanum (Müller in Allioni, 1766)
69	Sympetrum sanguineum (Müller, 1764)
70	Sympetrum striolatum (Charpentier, 1840)
71	Sympetrum vulgatum (Linnaeus, 1758)