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Insects of Britain and Ireland: dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata) |
This contents page, the key, and the descriptions were generated automatically from a DELTA database (Dallwitz 1980; Dallwitz, Paine, and Zurcher 1993).
Interactive key, including interactive information retrieval • Hints on using the interactive key
The interactive key is easy to use, allows free choice of characters, and can lead to correct identifications in spite of occasional errors. It can display all the illustrations, full and partial descriptions, diagnostic descriptions, differences and similarities between taxa, lists of taxa exhibiting or lacking specified attributes, and distributions of character states within any set of taxa.
Character list • General morphology of Odonata • Implicit attributes • DELTA data files
Notes on John Curtis’s British Entomology • Updated insect names for John Curtis’s British Entomology • Updated plant names for John Curtis’s British Entomology • Notes on the scanning of the images
Poems on insects by Giles Watson
Acknowledgements • References • Citation • Contacts, conditions of use, contributions
The bold parts in the descriptions are diagnostic descriptions, generated with the aid of Intkey (Dallwitz, Paine, and Zurcher 1995, 2000). They distinguish most taxa in at least two respects from the other taxa.
We advise against extracting comparative information from the descriptions. This is much more easily achieved using the DELTA data files or the interactive key. See also Guidelines for using data taken from Web publications.
• Aeshna caerulea (Ström, 1783) • Aeshna cyanea (Müller, 1764) • Aeshna grandis (Linnaeus, 1758) • Aeshna isosceles (Müller, 1767) • Aeshna juncea (Linnaeus, 1758) • Aeshna mixta (Latreille, 1804) • Agrion splendens (Harris, 1776) • Agrion virgo (Linnaeus, 1758) • Anax imperator (Leach, 1815)
• Brachytron pratense (Müller, 1764)
• Ceriagrion tenellum (de Villiers, 1789) • Coenagrion armatum (Charpentier, 1840) • Coenagrion hastulatum (Charpentier, 1825) • Coenagrion mercuriale (Charpentier, 1840) • Coenagrion puella (Linnaeus, 1758) • Coenagrion pulchellum (van der Linden, 1825) • Coenagrion scitulum (Rambur, 1842) • Cordulegaster boltonii (Donovan, 1807) • Cordulia linaenea (Fraser 1956)
• Enallagma cyathigerum (Charpentier, 1840) • Erythromma najas (Hansemann, 1823)
• Gomphus vulgatissimus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Ischnura elegans (van der Linden, 1820) • Ischnura pumilio (Charpentier, 1825)
• Lestes dryas (Kirby, 1890) • Lestes sponsa (Hansemann, 1823) • Leucorrhinia dubia (van der Linden, 1825) • Libellula depressa (Linnaeus, 1758) • Libellula fulva (Müller, 1764) • Libellula quadrimaculata (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Orthetrum cancellatum (Linnaeus, 1758) • Orthetrum coerulescens (Fabricius, 1798) • Oxygastra curtisii (Dale, 1834)
• Platycnemis pennipes (Pallas, 1771) • Pyrrhosoma nymphula (Sulzer, 1776)
• Somatochlora arctica (Zetterstedt, 1840) • Somatochlora metallica (van der Linden, 1825) • Sympetrum flaveolum (Linnaeus, 1758) • Sympetrum fonscolombei (Selys, 1840) • Sympetrum nigrescens (Lucas, 1911) • Sympetrum sanguineum (Müller, 1764) • Sympetrum scoticum (Leach in Donovan, 1811) • Sympetrum striolatum (Charpentier, 1840) • Sympetrum vulgatum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Cite this publication as: ‘Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2003 onwards. Insects of Britain and Ireland: dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata). Version: 14th April 2022. delta-intkey.com’.
Insect groups treated separately in the ‘Insects of Britain and Ireland’ package
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