Checklist Greece: Crete; scientific names
Below is a checklist of the 35 dragonfly and damselfly species for the area Greece: Crete. 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 as per our overall checklist. Clicking on a species name in the list allows you to then cycle through the entire checklist for the area Greece: Crete by using the Previous (<==) and Next (==>) buttons at the bottom of each page. If you would prefer to see it sorted alphabetically on the species' scientific names, 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 |
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1 | Lestes dryas Kirby, 1890   |
2 | Lestes barbarus (Fabricius, 1798)   |
3 | Chalcolestes parvidens (Artobolevsky, 1929)   |
4 | Sympecma fusca (Vander Linden, 1820)   |
5 | Calopteryx splendens (Harris, 1780)   |
6 | Calopteryx virgo (Linnaeus, 1758)   |
7 | Ischnura elegans (Vander Linden, 1820)   |
8 | Ischnura pumilio (Charpentier, 1825)   |
9 | Enallagma cyathigerum (Charpentier, 1840)   |
10 | Coenagrion intermedium Lohmann, 1990   |
11 | Coenagrion scitulum (Rambur, 1842)   |
12 | Erythromma viridulum (Charpentier, 1840)   |
13 | Erythromma lindenii (Selys, 1840)   |
14 | Ceriagrion tenellum (de Villers, 1789)   |
15 | Aeshna mixta Latreille, 1805   |
16 | Aeshna affinis Vander Linden, 1820   |
17 | Anax imperator Leach, 1815   |
18 | Anax parthenope (Selys, 1839)   |
19 | Anax ephippiger (Burmeister, 1839)   |
20 | Boyeria cretensis Peters, 1991   |
21 | Lindenia tetraphylla (Vander Linden, 1825)   |
22 | Somatochlora meridionalis Nielsen, 1935   |
23 | Libellula depressa Linnaeus, 1758   |
24 | Orthetrum cancellatum (Linnaeus, 1758)   |
25 | Orthetrum albistylum (Selys, 1848)   |
26 | Orthetrum coerulescens (Fabricius, 1798)   |
27 | Orthetrum brunneum (Fonscolombe, 1837)   |
28 | Orthetrum chrysostigma (Burmeister, 1839)   |
29 | Sympetrum fonscolombii (Selys, 1840)   |
30 | Sympetrum striolatum (Charpentier, 1840)   |
31 | Sympetrum meridionale (Selys, 1841)   |
32 | Crocothemis erythraea (Brullé, 1832)   |
33 | Trithemis annulata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1807)   |
34 | Trithemis arteriosa (Burmeister, 1839)   |
35 | Selysiothemis nigra (Vander Linden, 1825)   |