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This paper presents the results of a study on the odonate fauna in Azerbaijan The survey was conducted in the summer of 2021 and covered 24 localities in twelve districts. A total of 34 species from 9 families was recorded. New localities for Gomphus schneiderii Selys, 1850 and Libellula pontica Selys, 1887 are reported. A formerly published record of Gomphus vulgatissimus from Khachmaz, Nabran village, has to be corrected into G. schneiderii.
Boudot et al. (2021) extirpated, without any discussion, G. vulgatissimus from the list of Azerbaijan Odonata, subsuming all records of this taxon under G. schneiderii. This is contradictory to the fact that G. vulgatissimus was documented for Azerbaijan by Bartenef (1912). We discuss the current knowledge of the two taxa G. vulgatissimus and G. schneiderii, document a new record of G. vulgatissimus for Azerbaijan, and map all known findings of the two taxa that have been reported to date as well as the potential distribution (search area) of G. vulgatissimus in northern Azerbaijan.
During four field trips in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan from 2010 to 2018, the author collected data of a total of 55 species (see Tab. 2 in Appendix). This study provides first insights into new or rare species in this ecoregion. Ischnura fountaineae and Cordulia aenea were found for the first time in Armenia. We also highlight the rediscovery of some species that were mentioned in the older literature but had not been confirmed since. An autochthonous population of Lestes macrostigma was discovered in Azerbaijan sixteen years after the single previous record by Dumont (2004). Original information is provided on the distribution of some rare species encountered in these countries. Finally, the identification of a puzzling Cordulegaster sp. observed in south Armenia is discussed briefly.