Zygoptera - Damselflies
Family Calopteryigidae - Demoiselles
Calopteryx virgo - Beautiful
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Calopteryx splendens - Banded Demoiselle
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Family Lestidae - Emerald damselflies
Lestes sponsa - Emerald Damselfly
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Lestes dryas - Scarce Emerald Damselfly
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Lestes barbarus - Southern Emerald Damselfly
(migrant/vagrant)
Lestes viridis - Willow Emerald Damselfly (migrant/vagrant)
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Sympecma fusca - Winter Damselfly (migrant/vagrant)
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Family Platycnemididae - White-legged damselflies
Platycnemis pennipes - White-legged Damselfly
Family Coenagrionidae - Red and Blue/black damselflies
Pyrrhosoma nymphula -
Large Red Damselfly
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Erythromma najas - Red-eyed Damselfly
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Erythromma viridulum - Small Red-eyed Damselfly
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- Southern Damselfly
- Dainty Damselfly (extinct in UK)
- Northern Damselfly
- Irish Damselfly
- Norfolk Damselfly (extinct in UK)
Coenagrion puella - Azure Damselfly
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Coenagrion pulchellum - Variable Damselfly
Enallagma cyathigerum - Common Blue Damselfly
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- Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly
Iscnura elegans - Blue-tailed Damselfly
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Ceriagrion tenellum - Small Red Damselfly
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Anisoptera - Dragonflies
Family Aeshnidae - Hawker Dragonflies
- Azure Hawker
Aeshna juncea - Common Hawker
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Aeshna mixta - Migrant Hawker
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Aeshna cyanea - Southern Hawker
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Aeshna grandis - Brown Hawker
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- Southern Migrant Hawker (migrant/vagrant)
Aeshna isosceles - Norfolk Hawker
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Anax imperator - Emperor Dragonfly
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- Lesser Emperor (migrant/vagrant)
- Green Darner (vagrant from USA)
- Vagrant Emperor (migrant/vagrant)
Brachytron pratense - Hairy Dragonfly
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Family Gomphidae - Club-tailed Dragonflies
- Common Club-tail
Family Cordulegastridae - Golden-ringed Dragonflies
Cordulegaster boltonii - Golden-ringed Dragonfly Click for more info
Family Corduliidae - Emerald Dragonflies
Cordulia aenea - Downy Emerald
- Brilliant Emerald
- Northern Emerald
- Orange-spotted Emerald (extinct in UK)
Family Libellulidae - Chasers, Skimmers and Darters
Libellula quadrimaculata -
Four-spotted Chaser
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Libellula fulva - Scarce Chaser
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Libellula depressa - Broad-bodied Chaser
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Orthetrum cancellatum - Black-tailed Skimmer
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Orthetrum coerulescens - Keeled Skimmer
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Sympetrum striolatum - Common Darter
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- Highland Darter
Sympetrum fonscolombii - Red-veined Darter
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Sympetrum flaveolum - Yellow-winged Darter
(migrant/vagrant)
Sympetrum sanguineum - Ruddy Darter
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Sympetrum danae - Black Darter
- Vagrant Darter (migrant/vagrant)
- Banded Darter (migrant/vagrant)
- Scarlet Darter (migrant/vagrant)
- Wandering Glider (migrant/vagrant)
- White-faced Darter