Checklist Italy: Sicily; scientific names

Below is a checklist of the 57 dragonfly and damselfly species for the area Italy: Sicily. 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 Italian 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 Italy: Sicily 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 mixta Latreille, 1805
5	Anax ephippiger (Burmeister, 1839)
6	Anax imperator Leach, 1815
7	Anax parthenope (Selys, 1839)
8	Boyeria irene (Fonscolombe, 1838)
9	Brachythemis impartita (Karsch, 1890)
10	Brachytron pratense (Müller, 1764)
11	Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis (Vander Linden, 1825)
12	Calopteryx splendens (Harris, 1780)
13	Calopteryx virgo (Linnaeus, 1758)
14	Calopteryx xanthostoma (Charpentier, 1825)
15	Ceriagrion tenellum (de Villers, 1789)
16	Chalcolestes parvidens (Artobolevsky, 1929)
17	Chalcolestes viridis (Vander Linden, 1825)
18	Coenagrion caerulescens (Fonscolombe, 1838)
19	Coenagrion mercuriale (Charpentier, 1840)
20	Coenagrion puella (Linnaeus, 1758)
21	Coenagrion scitulum (Rambur, 1842)
22	Cordulegaster bidentata Selys, 1843
23	Cordulegaster trinacriae Waterston, 1976
24	Crocothemis erythraea (Brullé, 1832)
25	Enallagma cyathigerum (Charpentier, 1840)
26	Erythromma lindenii (Selys, 1840)
27	Erythromma viridulum (Charpentier, 1840)
28	Ischnura fountaineae Morton, 1905
29	Ischnura genei (Rambur, 1842)
30	Ischnura pumilio (Charpentier, 1825)
31	Lestes barbarus (Fabricius, 1798)
32	Lestes dryas Kirby, 1890
33	Lestes macrostigma (Eversmann, 1836)
34	Lestes virens (Charpentier, 1825)
35	Libellula depressa Linnaeus, 1758
36	Libellula fulva Müller, 1764
37	Libellula quadrimaculata Linnaeus, 1758
38	Lindenia tetraphylla (Vander Linden, 1825)
39	Onychogomphus forcipatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
40	Onychogomphus uncatus (Charpentier, 1840)
41	Orthetrum brunneum (Fonscolombe, 1837)
42	Orthetrum cancellatum (Linnaeus, 1758)
43	Orthetrum coerulescens (Fabricius, 1798)
44	Orthetrum nitidinerve (Selys, 1841)
45	Orthetrum trinacria (Selys, 1841)
46	Pantala flavescens (Fabricius, 1798)
47	Paragomphus genei (Selys, 1841)
48	Pyrrhosoma nymphula (Sulzer, 1776)
49	Selysiothemis nigra (Vander Linden, 1825)
50	Sympecma fusca (Vander Linden, 1820)
51	Sympetrum fonscolombii (Selys, 1840)
52	Sympetrum meridionale (Selys, 1841)
53	Sympetrum sanguineum (Müller, 1764)
54	Sympetrum sinaiticum Dumont, 1977
55	Sympetrum striolatum (Charpentier, 1840)
56	Trithemis annulata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1807)
57	Zygonyx torridus (Kirby, 1889)