Local Articles

Photos of emmergences taken on Si Nakharin Reservoir (Thailand)


How To: STUDYING TROPICAL DRAGONFLIES AND DAMSELFLIES

Some serious introduction to become an odonatologist in tropical Asia and beyond.

Authors: Viola Clausnitzer, KD Dijkstra and Vincent Kalkman [PDF]

Note: please do not forget to read the Code for Collecting from the W.D.A. website too.


Commercial Odonate Fishery at Cao Hai, Guizhou Province, southwest China

Ever wonder what an Anax could taste like? Look here and remember to book a table next time you travel to China.

Author: Keith D. Wilson [PDF]


Dragonfly groups of conservation interest confined to the Oriental Region

Author: Keith D. Wilson [HTML] [PDF]


Oriental Region

Description about this biodiversity region and how Asia-Dragonfly defines its areas. [HTML]



External Articles

Article: Ezine Procupine from the Hong Kong University.
Written by Keith D.P. Wilson
Orthetrum poecilops Ris - A marine dragonfly of conservation priority.
Include pictures and key for identifiction.

http://www.hku.hk/ecology/porcupine/por22/22-invertebrates.htm#orth

            


Submitted by Webmaster on 2008-02-16 06:23:46
Article: Burt, J. [2003]. Aquatic invertebrates of an intermittent stream in the arid Hajar Mountains. Tribulus Vol. 13.2. pp. 14-22. http://www.enhg.org/trib/V13N2/TribulusV13N2p14-22.pdf

Abstract
Aquatic macroinvertebrates were collected from six habitats in two permanently flowing sites in Wadi Qahfi, northern Oman. A total of 38 taxa were identified, many to taxonomic levels previously unrecorded for aquatic fauna in Arabia. Overall richness was comparable between all habitats sampled. While very little regional information is available for identification of aquatic macroinvertebrates, the combination of regional
descriptive information with foreign keys for aquatic stages has proven to be a valuable approach. Recommendations are made for appropriate levels of classification for the major taxonomic groups, and references are provided to assist in identification.

            


Submitted by Eric Gibert on 2008-02-16 06:23:46
Article: Feulner, G.R. [2001]. The damselfly Pseudagrion decorum breeding in the UAE. Tribulus Vol.11.1. p. 24.
http://www.enhg.org/trib/V11N1/TribulusV11N1p24.pdf

Abstract
Report on the discovery of a breeding population of a recently recorded species and description of breeding behaviour. Colour photograph.

            


Submitted by Eric Gibert on 2008-02-16 06:23:46
Article: Feulner, G.R. [1999]. Two new UAE damselflies: Ceriagrion glabrum and Pseudagrion decorum. Tribulus Vol. 9:2 (Autumn/Winter 1999). p. 31.
http://www.enhg.org/trib/V09N2/TribulusV09N2p31.pdf

Abstract
First record in UAE of two species of Zygoptera included in Gile's list of species expected in UAE but not recorded. 2 colour photographs.

            


Submitted by Eric Gibert on 2008-02-16 06:23:46
Article: Feulner, G.R. [1999]. Two new UAE damselflies: Ceriagrion glabrum and Pseudagrion decorum. Tribulus Vol. 9:2 (Autumn/Winter 1999). p. 31.
http://www.enhg.org/trib/V09N2/TribulusV09N2p31.pdf

Abstract
First record in UAE of two species of Zygoptera included in Gile's list of species expected in UAE but not recorded. 2 colour photographs.

            


Submitted by Eric Gibert on 2008-02-16 06:23:46
Article: Giles, G. [1998]. An Illustrated Checklist of the Damselflies and Dragonflies of the UAE. Tribulus Vol. 8:2 (Winter 1998). p. 9-15.

http://www.enhg.org/trib/V08N2/TribulusV08N2p09-15.pdf

Abstract
A list of 29 Odonata species found (20) and expected (9) in the United Arab Emirates including colour photographs.

            


Submitted by Eric Gibert on 2008-02-16 06:23:46
Article: A. Sasamoto and D.M.Cuong (2005) New records of Odonata from Vietnam in Notul. odonatol., Vol. 6, No. 5, pp 45-52, June 1, 2005.

News records of 7 species of Odonata fauna from Vietnam.

            


Submitted by Do Manh Cuong on 2008-02-16 06:23:46
Article: CUONG, D.M. (2005) Davidius monastyrskii spec. Nov. a new dragonfly from northern Vietnam (Anisoptera: Gomphidae). 285-289

A new species of Davidius from Ba Be National Park, Northern Vietnam.

            


Submitted by Do Manh Cuong on 2008-02-16 06:23:46
Article: Wilson, K.D.P. & Reels, G.T. (2003). Odonata of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, Part I: Zygoptera.

Includes descriptions of six new species

            


Submitted by Graham Reels on 2008-02-16 06:23:46
Article: Wilson, K.D.P. & Reels, G.T. (2001). Odonata of Hainan, China. Odonatologica 30(2): 145-208.

Includes descriptions of 12 new species

            


Submitted by Graham Reels on 2008-02-16 06:23:46
Article: Matti Hämäläinen & Roland Müller;
Synopsis of the Philippine Odonata, with List of Species recorded from forty Islands.
Odonatologica 26(3): pp 249-315.
(Results of the Roland Müller Zoological Expeditions to the Philippines, No. 14.
A brief description of the History to the Odonatology in the Philippines, a list of all known Species of the Archipelago and brief description of some forty Islands.

            


Submitted by Roland Müller on 2008-02-16 06:23:46
Article: Dirk Gassmann & Matti Hämäläinen;
A Revision of the Philippine Subgenus Risiocnemis (Igneocnemis) Hämäläinen (Odonata: Platycnemididae)
in: Tijdschrift voor Entomology, Vol. 145, pp 213-266, 2002
with descriptions of new species.

            


Submitted by Roland Müller on 2008-02-16 06:23:46
Article:
Jödicke, R., J.-P. Boudot, G. Jacquemin, B. Samraoui & W. Schneider: Critical species of Odonata in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula: International Journal of Odonatology Volume 7.2 pp.239-253
http://ijo.tu-bs.de/Abstracts/7(2)_239.pdf

Abstract
The region is broadly determined by desert, which forms a huge belt between the western Palaearctic and the Afrotropics. Fourteen out of the 125 odonate species recorded so far are endemics. There are two main centres of endemism in the region: the northern Maghreb and the southern Arabian Peninsula. Odonate habitats in the desert are especially endangered by dryness and pollution. Fourteen species – most of them endemics – are regarded as critical. Conservation measures are suggested.

            


Submitted by Eric Gibert on 2008-02-16 06:23:46