Checklist Luxembourg; scientific names

Below is a checklist of the 62 dragonfly and damselfly species for the area Luxembourg. 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 German common names, or the French 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 Luxembourg 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 juncea (Linnaeus, 1758)
6	Aeshna mixta Latreille, 1805
7	Anax imperator Leach, 1815
8	Anax parthenope (Selys, 1839)
9	Brachytron pratense (Müller, 1764)
10	Calopteryx splendens (Harris, 1780)
11	Calopteryx virgo (Linnaeus, 1758)
12	Chalcolestes viridis (Vander Linden, 1825)
13	Coenagrion mercuriale (Charpentier, 1840)
14	Coenagrion puella (Linnaeus, 1758)
15	Coenagrion pulchellum (Vander Linden, 1825)
16	Coenagrion scitulum (Rambur, 1842)
17	Cordulegaster bidentata Selys, 1843
18	Cordulegaster boltonii (Donovan, 1807)
19	Cordulia aenea (Linnaeus, 1758)
20	Crocothemis erythraea (Brullé, 1832)
21	Enallagma cyathigerum (Charpentier, 1840)
22	Epitheca bimaculata (Charpentier, 1825)
23	Erythromma lindenii (Selys, 1840)
24	Erythromma najas (Hansemann, 1823)
25	Erythromma viridulum (Charpentier, 1840)
26	Gomphus pulchellus Selys, 1840
27	Gomphus vulgatissimus (Linnaeus, 1758)
28	Ischnura elegans (Vander Linden, 1820)
29	Ischnura pumilio (Charpentier, 1825)
30	Lestes barbarus (Fabricius, 1798)
31	Lestes dryas Kirby, 1890
32	Lestes sponsa (Hansemann, 1823)
33	Lestes virens (Charpentier, 1825)
34	Leucorrhinia caudalis (Charpentier, 1840)
35	Leucorrhinia dubia (Vander Linden, 1825)
36	Leucorrhinia pectoralis (Charpentier, 1825)
37	Leucorrhinia rubicunda (Linnaeus, 1758)
38	Libellula depressa Linnaeus, 1758
39	Libellula fulva Müller, 1764
40	Libellula quadrimaculata Linnaeus, 1758
41	Nehalennia speciosa (Charpentier, 1840)
42	Onychogomphus forcipatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
43	Ophiogomphus cecilia (Fourcroy, 1785)
44	Orthetrum brunneum (Fonscolombe, 1837)
45	Orthetrum cancellatum (Linnaeus, 1758)
46	Orthetrum coerulescens (Fabricius, 1798)
47	Oxygastra curtisii (Dale, 1834)
48	Platycnemis pennipes (Pallas, 1771)
49	Pyrrhosoma nymphula (Sulzer, 1776)
50	Somatochlora flavomaculata (Vander Linden, 1825)
51	Somatochlora metallica (Vander Linden, 1825)
52	Stylurus flavipes (Charpentier, 1825)
53	Sympecma fusca (Vander Linden, 1820)
54	Sympetrum danae (Sulzer, 1776)
55	Sympetrum depressiusculum (Selys, 1841)
56	Sympetrum flaveolum (Linnaeus, 1758)
57	Sympetrum fonscolombii (Selys, 1840)
58	Sympetrum meridionale (Selys, 1841)
59	Sympetrum pedemontanum (Müller in Allioni, 1766)
60	Sympetrum sanguineum (Müller, 1764)
61	Sympetrum striolatum (Charpentier, 1840)
62	Sympetrum vulgatum (Linnaeus, 1758)