ZYGOPTERA (Damselflies)

Demoiselles (Calopterygidae)

• Banded Demoiselle (Calyopteryx splendens)
• Demoiselle (Calopteryx sp.)*

White-legged damselflies (Platycnemididae)

• White-legged damselfly (Platycnemis pennipes)*

Red damselflies and blue damselflies (Coenagrionidae)

• Large red damselfly (Pyrrhosoma nymphula)
• Azure damselfly (Coenagrion puella)*
• Common blue damselfly (Enallagma cyathigerum)*
• Blue-tailed damselfly (Ischnura elegans)*
• Red-eyed damselfly (Erythromma najas)*
• Small Red-eyed damselfly (Erythromma viridulum)*

ANISOPTERA (Dragonflies)

Hawker dragonflies (Aeshnidae)

• Hairy Dragonfly (Brachytron pratense)*
• Emperor Dragonfly (Anax imperator)*
• Lesser Emperor (Anax parthenope)*
• Brown Hawker (Aeshna grandis)*
• Southern Hawker (Aeshna cyanea)*
• Migrant Hawker (Aeshna mixta)

Club-tailed dragonflies (Gomphidae)

• Club-tailed Dragonfly (Gomphus vulgatissimus)*

Emerald dragonflies (Corduliidae)

• Downy Emerald (Cordulia aenea)*

Chaser, skimmer and darter dragonflies (Libellulidae)

• Ruddy Darter (Sympetrum sanguineum)
• Common Darter (Sympetrum striolatum)*
• Black-tailed Skimmer (Orthetrum cancellatum)
• Four-spotted Chaser (Libellula quadrimaculata)*
• Broad bodied Chaser (Libellula depressa)

Common blue damselfly - female (15 May 2005)*

exuvia

Common blue damselfly - male (11 June 2005)*

Ruddy darter (Sympetrum sanguineum) - male (22 August 2004)

• Stephen Burch's Birding and Dragonfly Website - a contemporary guide to dragonflies in Oxfordshire.
• The British Dragonfly Society
• The Dragonfly Website
• G H Mahony's Dragonflies and Damselflies

Field Guide to the Dragonflies of Great Britain and Ireland

Steve Brooks and Richard Lewington

British Wildlife Publishing, Gillingham, Dorset, Revised edition, 2004

ISBN 0 9531399 0 5

Field Guide to the Dragonflies of Britain and Europe

Klaas-Douwe B Dijkstra and Richard Lewington

British Wildlife Publishing, Gillingham, Dorset, 2006

ISBN 0 953 1399 4 8 (paperback)

ISBN 0 953 1399 5 6 (hardback)

The Dragonflies of Oxfordshire

Anthony Brownett

Brookside Books, 1996

ISBN 0 9515647 2 2 (hardback)

Photographic Guide to the Exuviae of European Dragonflies

Christophe Brochard & Ewoud van der Ploeg

Not yet published

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