Checklist Croatia; scientific names

Below is a checklist of the 69 dragonfly and damselfly species for the area Croatia. 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 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 Croatia 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 grandis (Linnaeus, 1758)
4	Aeshna isoceles (Müller, 1767)
5	Aeshna mixta Latreille, 1805
6	Aeshna viridis Eversmann, 1836
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	Ceriagrion tenellum (de Villers, 1789)
15	Chalcolestes parvidens (Artobolevsky, 1929)
16	Chalcolestes viridis (Vander Linden, 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	Cordulia aenea (Linnaeus, 1758)
24	Crocothemis erythraea (Brullé, 1832)
25	Enallagma cyathigerum (Charpentier, 1840)
26	Epitheca bimaculata (Charpentier, 1825)
27	Erythromma lindenii (Selys, 1840)
28	Erythromma najas (Hansemann, 1823)
29	Erythromma viridulum (Charpentier, 1840)
30	Gomphus pulchellus Selys, 1840
31	Gomphus vulgatissimus (Linnaeus, 1758)
32	Ischnura elegans (Vander Linden, 1820)
33	Ischnura pumilio (Charpentier, 1825)
34	Lestes barbarus (Fabricius, 1798)
35	Lestes dryas Kirby, 1890
36	Lestes macrostigma (Eversmann, 1836)
37	Lestes sponsa (Hansemann, 1823)
38	Lestes virens (Charpentier, 1825)
39	Leucorrhinia caudalis (Charpentier, 1840)
40	Leucorrhinia pectoralis (Charpentier, 1825)
41	Libellula depressa Linnaeus, 1758
42	Libellula fulva Müller, 1764
43	Libellula quadrimaculata Linnaeus, 1758
44	Lindenia tetraphylla (Vander Linden, 1825)
45	Onychogomphus forcipatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
46	Ophiogomphus cecilia (Fourcroy, 1785)
47	Orthetrum albistylum (Selys, 1848)
48	Orthetrum brunneum (Fonscolombe, 1837)
49	Orthetrum cancellatum (Linnaeus, 1758)
50	Orthetrum coerulescens (Fabricius, 1798)
51	Pantala flavescens (Fabricius, 1798)
52	Platycnemis pennipes (Pallas, 1771)
53	Pyrrhosoma nymphula (Sulzer, 1776)
54	Selysiothemis nigra (Vander Linden, 1825)
55	Somatochlora flavomaculata (Vander Linden, 1825)
56	Somatochlora meridionalis Nielsen, 1935
57	Somatochlora metallica (Vander Linden, 1825)
58	Stylurus flavipes (Charpentier, 1825)
59	Sympecma fusca (Vander Linden, 1820)
60	Sympetrum danae (Sulzer, 1776)
61	Sympetrum depressiusculum (Selys, 1841)
62	Sympetrum flaveolum (Linnaeus, 1758)
63	Sympetrum fonscolombii (Selys, 1840)
64	Sympetrum meridionale (Selys, 1841)
65	Sympetrum pedemontanum (Müller in Allioni, 1766)
66	Sympetrum sanguineum (Müller, 1764)
67	Sympetrum striolatum (Charpentier, 1840)
68	Sympetrum vulgatum (Linnaeus, 1758)
69	Trithemis annulata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1807)