Checklist Portugal: mainland; scientific names

Below is a checklist of the 65 dragonfly and damselfly species for the area Portugal: 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 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 Portugal: mainland 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
1	Lestes sponsa (Hansemann, 1823)
2	Lestes dryas Kirby, 1890
3	Lestes macrostigma (Eversmann, 1836)
4	Lestes barbarus (Fabricius, 1798)
5	Lestes virens (Charpentier, 1825)
6	Chalcolestes viridis (Vander Linden, 1825)
7	Sympecma fusca (Vander Linden, 1820)
8	Calopteryx xanthostoma (Charpentier, 1825)
9	Calopteryx virgo (Linnaeus, 1758)
10	Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis (Vander Linden, 1825)
11	Platycnemis acutipennis Selys, 1841
12	Platycnemis latipes Rambur, 1842
13	Ischnura graellsii (Rambur, 1842)
14	Ischnura pumilio (Charpentier, 1825)
15	Enallagma cyathigerum (Charpentier, 1840)
16	Coenagrion pulchellum (Vander Linden, 1825)
17	Coenagrion puella (Linnaeus, 1758)
18	Coenagrion mercuriale (Charpentier, 1840)
19	Coenagrion scitulum (Rambur, 1842)
20	Coenagrion caerulescens (Fonscolombe, 1838)
21	Erythromma viridulum (Charpentier, 1840)
22	Erythromma lindenii (Selys, 1840)
23	Pyrrhosoma nymphula (Sulzer, 1776)
24	Ceriagrion tenellum (de Villers, 1789)
25	Aeshna mixta Latreille, 1805
26	Aeshna affinis Vander Linden, 1820
27	Aeshna isoceles (Müller, 1767)
28	Aeshna cyanea (Müller, 1764)
29	Aeshna juncea (Linnaeus, 1758)
30	Anax imperator Leach, 1815
31	Anax parthenope (Selys, 1839)
32	Anax ephippiger (Burmeister, 1839)
33	Brachytron pratense (Müller, 1764)
34	Boyeria irene (Fonscolombe, 1838)
35	Gomphus graslinii Rambur, 1842
36	Gomphus simillimus Selys, 1840
37	Gomphus pulchellus Selys, 1840
38	Onychogomphus uncatus (Charpentier, 1840)
39	Onychogomphus forcipatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
40	Onychogomphus costae Selys, 1885
41	Paragomphus genei (Selys, 1841)
42	Cordulegaster boltonii (Donovan, 1807)
43	Oxygastra curtisii (Dale, 1834)
44	Macromia splendens (Pictet, 1843)
45	Libellula quadrimaculata Linnaeus, 1758
46	Libellula depressa Linnaeus, 1758
47	Libellula fulva Müller, 1764
48	Orthetrum cancellatum (Linnaeus, 1758)
49	Orthetrum coerulescens (Fabricius, 1798)
50	Orthetrum brunneum (Fonscolombe, 1837)
51	Orthetrum nitidinerve (Selys, 1841)
52	Orthetrum chrysostigma (Burmeister, 1839)
53	Orthetrum trinacria (Selys, 1841)
54	Sympetrum sanguineum (Müller, 1764)
55	Sympetrum flaveolum (Linnaeus, 1758)
56	Sympetrum fonscolombii (Selys, 1840)
57	Sympetrum striolatum (Charpentier, 1840)
58	Sympetrum meridionale (Selys, 1841)
59	Crocothemis erythraea (Brullé, 1832)
60	Trithemis annulata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1807)
61	Trithemis kirbyi Selys, 1891
62	Brachythemis impartita (Karsch, 1890)
63	Diplacodes lefebvrii (Rambur, 1842)
64	Selysiothemis nigra (Vander Linden, 1825)
65	Zygonyx torridus (Kirby, 1889)