Species

For the most part, here are lists of recorded species within the countries we’ve visited, together with links back to our species pages for those that we’ve encountered. The Australian list is a bit long at 324 species but can just about be dealt with.

• UK species
• European species
• French species
• Iberian species
• Bosnia and Herzegovina species
• Moroccan species
• Australian species
• New Zealand species

Where SE Asia and Southern Africa are concerned, exhaustive lists are either very long (Africa: 780) or very difficult (Cambodia under recorded). The following I’ve treated differently, these being simply lists of those species we’ve actually seen.

• SE Asian species
• Southern African species
• Mauritian species

Statistics

Below is a table of counts of species by various geographic areas, both those that I’m already interested in and those that I’d like to become interested in by visiting.

Area	#Species	Source	Comments
Worldwide	6406	Slater Museum	Dr D Paulson; count as of 26/07/2023
UK	45	myself	See my UK list for explanations
France (mainland)	89	Grand/Boudot
France (inc. Corsica)	100	Grand/Boudot
Iberian Peninsular	79	Iberian Wildlife Tours	includes a new species from 2020.
Bosnia & Herzegovina	62	Denis Bohm
Morocco	59	Jacquemain/J-P Boudot	includes P. flavescens.
Singapore	136	Robin Ngiam & Marcus Ng	That's more than Tang Hun Bun
Cambodia	>112	Dragonflies of Cambodia	Poorly recorded
Sri Lanka	129	Sumanapala	2017 data
Japan	221	Odonata of Japan	Includes subspecies; 203 otherwise
South Africa	164	Tarboton/Warwick	as of May 2015
Namibia	127	Suhling/Martens	from 2007
Mauritius	26	Elliot Pinhey (1962)	my count from a transcription
Africa	780	ADDO - African Damselflies & Dragonflies Online
Australia	324	Theischinger/Hawking
New Zealand	15	See my New Zealand Species page for an involved explanation.	2 are rare migrants/vagrants.
USA	479	Odonata Central	Dr. John Abbott @ University of Texas