Dragonflies Recorded in the Aammiq Area

Blue-tailed Damselfly Ischnura elegans ebneri, copulating

The Aammiq region has a surprising diversity of dragonflies. Listed below are species recorded by A Rocha personnel. The list is mainly based on records during weekly surveys of the Aammiq area over a seven month period from April to October of 2003.

The Aammiq region includes not just the wetlands but also the adjacent farmland and the rocky and partly wooded slopes of Jebel Barouk overlooking the marsh.

The dragonflies of the Aammiq area can be divided into two groups, the Zygoptera (damselflies) and the Anisoptera (the insects commonly referred to as dragonflies).

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Book available: The Dragonflies of the Aammiq Area, Lebanon. See the Publications page.

Damselflies: Zygoptera

Azure Damselfly Coenagrion puella syriaca
Dainty Damselfly Coenagrion scitulum
Erythromma viridulum orientale
Blue-tailed Damselfly Ischnura elegans ebneri
Lestes barbarus
Lestes virens virens
Willow Emerald Damselfly Lestes viridis parvidens
Platycnemis dealbata
Sympecma fusca

True dragonflies: Anisoptera

Scarlet Dragonfly Crocothemis erythraea, male

Migrant Hawker Aeshna mixta
Norfolk Hawker Anaciaeschna isosceles antehumeralis
Emperor Dragonfly Anax imperator
Caliaeschna microstigma
Cordulegaster insignis insignis
Scarlet Dragonfly Crocothemis erythraea
Broad-bodied Chaser Libellula depressa
Orthetrum brunneum brunneum
Black-tailed Skimmer Orthetrum cancellatum
Yellow-winged Darter Sympetrum flaveolatum
Red-veined Darter Sympetrum fonscolombei
Southern Darter Sympetrum meridionale
Ruddy Darter Sympetrum sanguineum
Common Darter Sympetrum striolatum striolatum

List correct as of December 2004. For further information, contact us.