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This paper presents the faunistic results of three short field excursions conducted in spring and early summer of 2018 in Kosovo, considering dragonfly fauna one of the most understudied countries of Europe. This study presents first systematic dragonfly research in Kosovo. Within a total of 13 field days between end of April and end of June 2018, 60 sites were surveyed and 44 dragonfly species were found. Significant results include the first documented report of 15 species for Kosovo. New data on several other species with a broader European concern or generally rare on the West Balkan peninsula, i.e. Coenagrion ornatum, Anax ephippiger, Caliaeschna microstigma, Cordulegaster heros, C. bidentata, Somatochlora flavomaculata, and Sympetrum flaveolum, are also presented. The overview of all visited sites is included. Altogether, 47 dragonfly species are now reported for Kosovo.
Records of Odonata collected in Gunong Mulu National Park in Sarawak are presented. Between 2005 and 2019, in 12 surveys that lasted between one week and five months, 163 species were collected. The collections from Gunong Mulu National Park are of importance for the taxonomic study of dragonflies and damselflies in Borneo; several species have been described based on material collected in the Park.
The survey is based on specimens held at Museums in Australia, Belgium and Germany. Altogether 487 specimens of 31 species from Timor were examined. These include: a recent collection from TimorLeste of 148 specimens (25 species) at the Australian Museum Sydney, an historic collection from West Timor consisting of 338 specimens (20 species) of the excollection Eugène Le Moult, stored at the Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique in Brussels, and a single specimen from West Timor of the Coll. Ris stored at the Senckenberg Naturmuseum Frankfurt, Germany. The following nine species are reported from Timor for the first time: Agriocnemis pygmaea, Austroallagma sagittiferum, Ischnura heterosticta, Xiphiagrion cyanomelas, Crocothemis servilia, Neurothemis ramburii, Orthetrum pruinosum cf. schneideri, Potamarcha congener and Zyxomma obtusum. The female of Anax georgius is described and illustrated. An illustrated key to the Anax species of the Lesser Sunda Islands is given and specimens from the Lesser Sunda Islands formerly identified as Anax gibbosulus are considered to be Anax panybeus. Some characters of the Orthetrum pruinosum taxa group of species, Tramea stenoloba and female Zyxomma obtusum are discussed. Figures of the male appendages and genital ligulae of Austroallagma sagittiferum, Aciagrion fragile and Xiphiagrion cyanomelas are provided, as well as figures of the male secondary genitalia, appendages and the penis of Trithemis lilacina and the male appendages of Epophthalmia vittigera. A preliminary checklist for Timor including 36 species is given.
Neu angelegte Kleingewässer werden oft durch Libellen rasch als Lebensräume in Anspruch genommen. Allerdings ist über die dauerhafte Bildung von Populationen, vor allem durch seltene und gefährdete Arten, noch wenig bekannt. Ziel dieser Studie war die Untersuchung des Besiedlungsprozesses von künstlich angelegten Gewässern durch Libellen mit besonderem Fokus auf moortypische Arten. In den Jahren 2015–2018 wurden in der Niederschlesischen Heide an sechs solchen Gewässern, drei neuen und drei alten, Exuvien von Großlibellen (Anisoptera) quantitativ aufgesammelt. Die Erfassung des Besiedlungserfolges durch Kleinlibellen (Zygoptera) erfolgte qualitativ als Zusatzinformation zur Artenvielfalt der Gewässer. Insgesamt waren 26 Libellenarten – 9 Zygoptera und 17 Anisoptera – bodenständig. Allerdings variierte der Artenreichtum deutlich sowohl zwischen den Gewässern als auch den Untersuchungsjahren, so dass sich keine klar definierten Unterschiede in der Artenvielfalt zwischen den neuen und alten Gewässern erkennen ließen. Unter der bodenständigen Arten wurden vier moortypische Großlibellen (Aeshna juncea, Leucorrhinia dubia, L. albifrons, L. pectoralis) nachgewiesen. Ununterbrochene Entwicklung ließ sich nur für A. juncea und L. dubia in einzelnen Gewässern bestätigen. Leucorrhinia albifrons kam nur sporadisch vor und wurde im letzten Untersuchungsjahr (2018) nicht mehr gefunden. Dagegen vollendete L. pectoralis ihre Entwicklung erst in den Jahren 2017–2018. Generell bevorzugten diese Arten Gewässer, in denen die Vegetation mäßig bis gut entwickelt war. Die Ergebnisse bestätigen, dass künstliche Gewässer durch ein breites Spektrum von Arten erfolgreich besiedelt werden können. Allerdings ließ sich die dauerhafte Reproduktion in den jeweiligen Gewässern nur für wenige Großlibellen nachweisen. Deshalb sind die Gewässer in der Niederschlesichen Heide nicht als langfristige Ersatzbiotope, sondern vielmehr als temporäre Fortpflanzungsbiotope von Individuen der Nebenpopulationen zu sehen.
Dragonflies from the Cape Verde Islands, collected between 1960 and 1989 and kept in institutes in Portugal and Cape Verde, were studied. The Cape Verde collection at the Centro de Zoologia, Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Lisbon, Portugal, includes eight species of dragonflies represented by 279 specimens collected in 1960-61 and 1969-72. The entomological collection at the Instituto Nacional de Investigação e Desenvolvimento Agrário (INIDA), São Jorge dos Orgãos, Republic of Cape Verde, includes four odonate species, represented by 27 specimens, collected in the years 1987 and 1989. Anax tristis Hagen and A. rutherfordi McLachlan, single male specimens of which were collected in Santo Antão, 27 October 1972, are new taxa for the archipelago. Both are tropical migrants of which the nearest known occurrence in continental Africa is more than 1,000 and 1,500 km, respectively, from the Cape Verde Islands. The two collections contain several specimens from new localities within the archipelago, particularly from the islands of Maio and Fogo. Current knowledge of flight season and island distribution are summarized and updated.
Dragonflies (Insecta, Odonata) of São Vicente, Cape Verde Islands : 10 species on a desert island
(2010)
The island of São Vicente, Cape Verde Islands, has no natural and permanent surface fresh water habitats. Surprisingly, with records of 10 species of dragonflies, the island is the most species-rich in the archipelago so far (cf. Aistleitner et al. 2008, this study). Knowledge of Odonata from São Vicente is based on a small number of reports, mostly including single records only (Calvert 1893, Kirby 1897, Lobin 1982, Aistleitner et al. 2008). During a visit to the island in August 2009, AM recorded four species as single adults. Two species were recorded on 26 August 2009, after two days of heavy rainfall which caused extensive temporary waterflows and pools in the main courses of river beds, on the plains, as well as on roads and sports grounds in and around the town of Mindelo.
A small collection of Odonata from Nuku Hiva Island, Marquesas Islands is presented. It adds Anax guttatus as a new species to this oceanic group. Hemicordulia sp. nov. is reported, but not described because the same species has been sampled before and is pending a formal description. A short taxonomic discussion on observed morphological similarity of male anal appendages in taxa presently assigned to Amorphostigma, Hivaagrion and Ischnura east of New Caledonia is provided. Important considerations for biogeography of the Pacific Odonata are discussed too.
In this paper, 47 specimens of dragonflies and damselflies collected by H. Lindberg and his assistant S. Panelius in the Cape Verde Islands in 1953-1954 and identified by K.J. Valle and K.F. Buchholz, are presented. The damselfly Agriocnemis exilis Selys, 1872, collected in Boa Vista Island in February 1954, is added to the list of Odonata known from the archipelago. The collection also includes specimens from another damselfly, Ischnura senegalensis (Rambur, 1842), which was previously recorded in Cape Verde on only two occasions, in 1898 and 2000.
As a result of increased interest in dragonflies and close cooperation between odonatologists on the Balkan Peninsula, the Balkan Odonatological Meeting (BOOM) has been established in 2011. This report presents the results of the field trip during 4th Balkan Odonatological Meeting that was held in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1st to 8th August 2014. With 69 surveyed localities and 496 records of 47 species, this was the most successful BOOM until now. The noteworthy results are records of several nationally rare species: Chalcolestes viridis, Coenagrion scitulum, Erythromma najas and Ceriagrion tenellum, and new populations of Cordulegaster heros, a species mentioned in the Annexes of the EU Habitats Directive. The distribution of Chalcolestes spp. in Bosnia and Herzegovina is also presented and discussed.
Sympetrum fonscolombii is for the first time reported for Tuva (Tyva Republic, Russia), as found in the UbsuNur Depression. New data are provided on Odonata of the Turan or TuranUyuk Depression of Tuva, including the first record of Somatochlora exuberata in Tuva beyond the Todzha Depression and Coenagrion armatum, C. ecornutum, Aeshna juncea, A. grandis, Somatochlora graeseri and Libellula quadrimaculata for the first time reported for the Turan Depression. New distributional data and comments on Ophiogomphus spinicornis Selys, 1878 are added. Somatochlora alpestris found at Lake Oyskoe is for the first time reported for the southern Krasnoyarskiy Kray.