Checklist France: mainland; scientific names
Below is a checklist of the 91 dragonfly and damselfly species for the area France: 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 French 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 France: 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 caerulea (Ström, 1783)  |
| 3 | Aeshna cyanea (Müller, 1764)  |
| 4 | Aeshna grandis (Linnaeus, 1758)  |
| 5 | Aeshna isoceles (Müller, 1767)  |
| 6 | Aeshna juncea (Linnaeus, 1758)  |
| 7 | Aeshna mixta Latreille, 1805  |
| 8 | Aeshna subarctica Walker, 1908  |
| 9 | Anax ephippiger (Burmeister, 1839)  |
| 10 | Anax imperator Leach, 1815  |
| 11 | Anax parthenope (Selys, 1839)  |
| 12 | Boyeria irene (Fonscolombe, 1838)  |
| 13 | Brachytron pratense (Müller, 1764)  |
| 14 | Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis (Vander Linden, 1825)  |
| 15 | Calopteryx splendens (Harris, 1780)  |
| 16 | Calopteryx virgo (Linnaeus, 1758)  |
| 17 | Calopteryx xanthostoma (Charpentier, 1825)  |
| 18 | Ceriagrion tenellum (de Villers, 1789)  |
| 19 | Chalcolestes viridis (Vander Linden, 1825)  |
| 20 | Coenagrion caerulescens (Fonscolombe, 1838)  |
| 21 | Coenagrion hastulatum (Charpentier, 1825)  |
| 22 | Coenagrion lunulatum (Charpentier, 1840)  |
| 23 | Coenagrion mercuriale (Charpentier, 1840)  |
| 24 | Coenagrion ornatum (Selys, 1850)  |
| 25 | Coenagrion puella (Linnaeus, 1758)  |
| 26 | Coenagrion pulchellum (Vander Linden, 1825)  |
| 27 | Coenagrion scitulum (Rambur, 1842)  |
| 28 | Cordulegaster bidentata Selys, 1843  |
| 29 | Cordulegaster boltonii (Donovan, 1807)  |
| 30 | Cordulia aenea (Linnaeus, 1758)  |
| 31 | Crocothemis erythraea (Brullé, 1832)  |
| 32 | Enallagma cyathigerum (Charpentier, 1840)  |
| 33 | Epitheca bimaculata (Charpentier, 1825)  |
| 34 | Erythromma lindenii (Selys, 1840)  |
| 35 | Erythromma najas (Hansemann, 1823)  |
| 36 | Erythromma viridulum (Charpentier, 1840)  |
| 37 | Gomphus graslinii Rambur, 1842  |
| 38 | Gomphus pulchellus Selys, 1840  |
| 39 | Gomphus simillimus Selys, 1840  |
| 40 | Gomphus vulgatissimus (Linnaeus, 1758)  |
| 41 | Ischnura elegans (Vander Linden, 1820)  |
| 42 | Ischnura graellsii (Rambur, 1842)  |
| 43 | Ischnura pumilio (Charpentier, 1825)  |
| 44 | Lestes barbarus (Fabricius, 1798)  |
| 45 | Lestes dryas Kirby, 1890  |
| 46 | Lestes macrostigma (Eversmann, 1836)  |
| 47 | Lestes sponsa (Hansemann, 1823)  |
| 48 | Lestes virens (Charpentier, 1825)  |
| 49 | Leucorrhinia albifrons (Burmeister, 1839)  |
| 50 | Leucorrhinia caudalis (Charpentier, 1840)  |
| 51 | Leucorrhinia dubia (Vander Linden, 1825)  |
| 52 | Leucorrhinia pectoralis (Charpentier, 1825)  |
| 53 | Leucorrhinia rubicunda (Linnaeus, 1758)  |
| 54 | Libellula depressa Linnaeus, 1758  |
| 55 | Libellula fulva Müller, 1764  |
| 56 | Libellula quadrimaculata Linnaeus, 1758  |
| 57 | Macromia splendens (Pictet, 1843)  |
| 58 | Nehalennia speciosa (Charpentier, 1840)  |
| 59 | Onychogomphus forcipatus (Linnaeus, 1758)  |
| 60 | Onychogomphus uncatus (Charpentier, 1840)  |
| 61 | Ophiogomphus cecilia (Fourcroy, 1785)  |
| 62 | Orthetrum albistylum (Selys, 1848)  |
| 63 | Orthetrum brunneum (Fonscolombe, 1837)  |
| 64 | Orthetrum cancellatum (Linnaeus, 1758)  |
| 65 | Orthetrum coerulescens (Fabricius, 1798)  |
| 66 | Oxygastra curtisii (Dale, 1834)  |
| 67 | Pantala flavescens (Fabricius, 1798)  |
| 68 | Platycnemis acutipennis Selys, 1841  |
| 69 | Platycnemis latipes Rambur, 1842  |
| 70 | Platycnemis pennipes (Pallas, 1771)  |
| 71 | Pyrrhosoma nymphula (Sulzer, 1776)  |
| 72 | Selysiothemis nigra (Vander Linden, 1825)  |
| 73 | Somatochlora alpestris (Selys, 1840)  |
| 74 | Somatochlora arctica (Zetterstedt, 1840)  |
| 75 | Somatochlora flavomaculata (Vander Linden, 1825)  |
| 76 | Somatochlora meridionalis Nielsen, 1935  |
| 77 | Somatochlora metallica (Vander Linden, 1825)  |
| 78 | Stylurus flavipes (Charpentier, 1825)  |
| 79 | Sympecma fusca (Vander Linden, 1820)  |
| 80 | Sympecma paedisca (Brauer, 1877)  |
| 81 | Sympetrum danae (Sulzer, 1776)  |
| 82 | Sympetrum depressiusculum (Selys, 1841)  |
| 83 | Sympetrum flaveolum (Linnaeus, 1758)  |
| 84 | Sympetrum fonscolombii (Selys, 1840)  |
| 85 | Sympetrum meridionale (Selys, 1841)  |
| 86 | Sympetrum pedemontanum (Müller in Allioni, 1766)  |
| 87 | Sympetrum sanguineum (Müller, 1764)  |
| 88 | Sympetrum striolatum (Charpentier, 1840)  |
| 89 | Sympetrum vulgatum (Linnaeus, 1758)  |
| 90 | Trithemis annulata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1807)  |
| 91 | Trithemis kirbyi Selys, 1891  |