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Home › Species › UK Species › Bedfordshire

Bedfordshire

Just a list of breeding species in my home county of Bedfordshire.

Zygoptera (Damselflies)

  1. Calopteryx splendens (Banded Demoiselle)
  2. Chalcolestes viridis (Willow Emerald Damselfly)
  3. Lestes sponsa (Emerald Damselfly)
  4. Ischnura elegans (Blue-tailed Damselfly)
  5. Ischnura pumilio (Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly)
  6. Enallagma cyathigerum (Common Blue Damselfly)
  7. Coenagrion pulchellum (Variable Damselfly)
  8. Coenagrion puella (Azure Damselfly)
  9. Erythromma najas (Red-eyed Damselfly)
  10. Erythromma viridulum (Small Red-eyed Damselfly)
  11. Pyrrhosoma nymphula (Large Red Damselfly)
  12. Platycnemis pennipes (White-legged Damselfly)

Anisoptera (Dragonflies)

  1. Aeshna mixta (Migrant Hawker)
  2. Aeshna affinis (Southern Migrant Hawker)
  3. Isoaeschna isoceles (Norfolk Hawker)
  4. Aeshna grandis (Brown Hawker)
  5. Aeshna cyanea (Southern Hawker)
  6. Anax imperator (Emperor Dragonfly)
  7. Anax parthenope (Lesser Emperor Dragonfly)
  8. Brachytron pratense (Hairy Dragonfly)
  9. Cordulia aenea (Downy Emerald)
  10. Libellula quadrimaculata (Four-spotted Chaser)
  11. Libellula depressa (Broad-bodied Chaser)
  12. Libellula fulva (Scarce Chaser)
  13. Orthetrum cancellatum (Black-tailed Skimmer)
  14. Orthetrum coerulescens (Keeled Skimmer)
  15. Sympetrum sanguineum (Ruddy Darter)
  16. Sympetrum striolatum (Common Darter)
  17. Sympetrum fonscolombii (Red-veined Darter)

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European Damselflies

  • Azure Damselfly
  • Banded Demoiselle
  • Beautiful Demoiselle
  • Blue-tailed Damselfly
  • Common Blue Damselfly
  • Copper Demoiselle
  • Dainty Damselfly
  • Dark Spreadwing
  • Emerald Damselfly
  • Goblet-marked Damselfly
  • Iberian Bluetail
  • Irish Damselfly
  • Large Red Damselfly
  • Northern Damselfly
  • Orange White-legged Damselfly
  • Red-eyed Damselfly
  • Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly
  • Scarce Emerald Damselfly
  • Siberian Winter Damsel
  • Small Emerald Damselfly
  • Small Red Damselfly
  • Small Red-eyed Damselfly
  • Southern Damselfly
  • Southern Emerald Damselfly
  • Variable Damselfly
  • Western Demoiselle
  • White Featherleg
  • White-legged Damselfly
  • Willow Emerald Damselfly
  • Winter Damselfly

European Dragonflies

  • Azure Hawker
  • Balkan Emerald
  • Black Darter
  • Banded Darter
  • Black Pennant
  • Black Percher
  • Black-tailed Skimmer
  • Bladetail
  • Blue-eyed Hooktail
  • Bog Hawker
  • Brilliant Emerald
  • Broad-bodied Chaser
  • Brown Hawker
  • Common Clubtail
  • Common Darter
  • Common Hawker
  • Dark Whiteface
  • Desert Darter
  • Downy Emerald
  • Emperor Dragonfly
  • Epaulet Skimmer
  • Four-spotted Chaser
  • Golden-ringed Dragonfly
  • Green-eyed Hooktail
  • Green Hawker
  • Hairy Dragonfly/Hairy Hawker
  • Highland Darter
  • Indigo Dropwing
  • Island Darter
  • Keeled Skimmer
  • Lesser Emperor
  • Lilypad Whiteface
  • Long Skimmer
  • Migrant Hawker
  • Moustached Darter
  • Norfolk Hawker
  • Northern Banded Groundling
  • Northern Emerald
  • Orange-spotted Emerald
  • Orange-winged Dropwing
  • Red-veined Darter
  • Ruddy Darter
  • Ruby Whiteface
  • Scarce Chaser
  • Scarlet Darter
  • Slender Skimmer
  • Spotted Darter
  • Sombre Goldenring
  • Southern Darter
  • Southern Hawker
  • Southern Migrant Hawker
  • Southern Skimmer
  • Vagrant Emperor
  • Violet Dropwing
  • Western Clubtail
  • Western Spectre/Dusk Hawker
  • White-faced Darter/Small Whiteface
  • White-tailed Skimmer
  • Yellow Clubtail
  • Yellow-spotted Emerald
  • Yellow-spotted Whiteface
  • Yellow-winged Darter

Asian Damselflies

  • Blue Sprite
  • Blue-nosed Sprite
  • Blue-spotted Flatwing
  • Common Bluetail
  • Common Flashwing
  • Crenulated Spreadwing
  • Look-alike Sprite
  • Orange-tailed Sprite
  • Orange-faced Sprite
  • Sri Lanka Dark-glittering Threadtail
  • Sri Lanka Shining Gossamerwing
  • Ornate Coraltail
  • Variable Wisp
  • Yellow Waxtail

Asian Dragonflies

  • Banded Skimmer
  • Black-tipped Percher
  • Blue Adjutant
  • Blue Dasher
  • Blue Percher
  • Blue Pursuer
  • Common Amberwing
  • Common Blue Skimmer
  • Common Flangetail
  • Common Parasol
  • Common Redbolt
  • Crimson Dropwing
  • Dancing Dropwing
  • Fulvous Forest Skimmer
  • Granite Ghost
  • Grenadier
  • Indigo Dropwing
  • Lesser Emperor (Oriental)
  • Neurothemis ramburii (Red Percher)
  • Oriental Scarlet
  • Pied Percher
  • Pond Adjutant
  • Rapacious Flangetail
  • Restless Demon
  • Saddlebag Glider
  • Sapphire Flutterer
  • Scarlet Basker
  • Scarlet Grenadier
  • Scarlet Skimmer
  • Sombre Lieutenant
  • Spine-tufted Skimmer
  • Striped Grenadier
  • Treehugger
  • Trumpet Tail
  • Variable Sentinel
  • Variegated Flutterer
  • Variegated Green Skimmer
  • White-barred Duskhawk
  • Sri Lanka Wijaya’s Scissortail
  • Yellow-barred Flutterer

Southern African Damselflies

  • Blue-sided Sprite
  • Cherry-eye Sprite
  • Common Citril/Common Orange
  • Dark Sprite
  • Glistening Demoiselle
  • Massai Sprite
  • Swarthy Sprite

Southern African Dragonflies

  • Black-splashed Elf
  • Blue Emperor/Emperor Dragonfly
  • Bold Skimmer
  • Broad Scarlet/Scarlet Darter
  • Epaulet Skimmer
  • Grizzled Pintail/Trumpet Tail
  • Halfshade Dropwing
  • Julia Skimmer
  • Little Percher
  • Little Skimmer
  • Long Skimmer
  • Lucia Widow/Black-winged Widow
  • Orange-winged Dropwing
  • Portia Widow/Shadow-bridge Widow
  • Red Groundling
  • Red-veined Darter
  • Red-veined Dropwing
  • Small Scarlet
  • Twister
  • Vagrant Emperor
  • Violet Dropwing
  • Wandering Glider

Antipodean Damselflies

  • Arrowhead Rockmaster
  • Aurora Bluetail/Gossamer Damselfly (NZ)
  • Blue Damselfly (NZ)
  • Blue Riverdamsel
  • Blue Slim
  • Bronze Needle
  • Coastal Flatwing
  • Colourful Bluetail
  • Common Bluetail
  • Common Flatwing
  • Common Redcoat (NZ)
  • Dusky Spreadwing
  • Dune Ringtail
  • Eastern Billabongfly
  • Fivespot Threadtail
  • Flame-headed Riverdamsel
  • Giant Rockmaster
  • Golden Flatwing
  • Gold-fronted Riverdamsel
  • Green-blue Threadtail
  • Inland Ringtail
  • Intermediate Whitetip
  • Orange Threadtail
  • Powdered Wiretail
  • Pretty Relict
  • Red & Blue Damsel
  • Red-breasted Longtail
  • Redtail
  • Sapphire Rockmaster
  • Short-tipped Bluestreak
  • Silver Wisp
  • Slender Reedling
  • Slender Wiretail
  • Southern Whitetip
  • Splendid Longlegs
  • Tropical Flatwing
  • Tropical Needle
  • Tropical Pinfly
  • Tropical Rockmaster
  • Tropical Wisp
  • Wandering Midget
  • Wandering Ringtail

Antipodean Dragonflies

  • Australian Cruiser
  • Australian Duskhawker
  • Australian Emperor/Baron (NZ)
  • Australian Emerald
  • Australian Pygmyfly
  • Australian Tiger
  • Black-faced Percher
  • Black Knight
  • Black Tigertail
  • Blue Skimmer
  • Blue-spotted Hawker/Lancer (NZ)
  • Brownwater Skimmer
  • Chalky Percher
  • Circle-tipped Mistfly
  • Clavicle Tigertail
  • Common Archtail
  • Common Glider
  • Darkmouth
  • Dune Glider
  • Eastern Hawk
  • Elusive Archtail
  • Eungella Darner
  • Fiery Skimmer
  • Flame-tipped Hunter
  • Giant Petaltail
  • Green Skimmer
  • Green-striped Darner
  • Iridescent Flutterer
  • Jade Hunter
  • L-spot Basker
  • Lemon-tipped Hunter
  • Metallic Tigerhawk
  • Multi-spotted Darner
  • Narrow-lobed Glider
  • Painted Grasshawk
  • Pale Hunter
  • Palemouth
  • Pygmy Percher
  • Rainforest Elf
  • Rainforest Mystic
  • Rainforest Vicetail
  • Red Arrow
  • Red Baron
  • Red Swampdragon
  • Royal Tigertail
  • Scarlet Percher
  • Sentry Dragonfly (NZ)
  • Short-tailed Duskdarter
  • Slender Skimmer
  • Southern Giant Darner
  • Spinehead Dragon
  • Stout Vicetail
  • Striped Swampdragon
  • Swamp Tigertail
  • Tau Emerald
  • Tropical Evening Darner
  • Tropical Unicorn Darner
  • Unicorn Hunter
  • Wallum Vicetail
  • Wandering Pennant
  • Wandering Percher/Red Percher (NZ)
  • Water Prince
  • Yellow-spotted Dragonfly (NZ)
  • Yellow-spotted Emerald
  • Yellow-striped Flutterer
  • Yellow-striped Hunter
  • Yellow-tipped Tigertail
  • Zebra Vicetail
  • Zircon Flutterer

The Americas Damselflies

  • Amelia’s Threadtail
  • Big Blue Dancer
  • Blue Flatwing
  • Bristle-tipped Dancer
  • Bromeliad Helicopter
  • a Shadowdamsel
  • Cerulean Dancer
  • Chirripo Cora
  • Citrine Forktail
  • Costa Rican Wedgetail
  • Dusky Dancer
  • Familiar Bluet
  • Eastern Forktail
  • Fiery-eyed Dancer
  • Fragile Forktail
  • Great Spreadwing
  • Green-eyed Firetail
  • Highland Rubyspot
  • Marsh Firetail
  • Middle American Pearlwing
  • Montane Firetail
  • Mountain Flatwing
  • Nathalia Shadowdamsel
  • Olmec Dancer
  • Purple Dancer
  • Purplish Rubyspot
  • Red-and-black Firetail
  • Red-and-black Flatwing
  • Red-striped Rubyspot
  • Sky-blue Dancer
  • Smoky Rubyspot
  • Striped Firetail
  • Tiny Forktail
  • Tropical Sprite
  • Varied Dancer
  • Wedge-striped Spreadwing
  • Wispy Threadtail

The Americas Dragonflies

  • Amazon Sapphirewing
  • Amber-banded Clubskimmer
  • Andagoya Dragonlet
  • Black Dasher
  • Black Pondhawk
  • Black-winged Dragonlet
  • Blue Dasher
  • Blue-eyed Setwing
  • Brilliant Redskimmer
  • Brown Setwing
  • Cardinal Meadowhawk
  • Carmine Skimmer
  • Chalk-marked Dragonlet
  • Common Blue-eye
  • Common Knobtail
  • Dancing Amberwing
  • Eastern Pondhawk
  • Even-striped Dasher
  • Flame-tailed Pondhawk
  • Forest Pond Dasher
  • Fork-tipped Dasher
  • Golden Amberwing
  • Gold-tipped Darner
  • Gray-waisted Skimmer
  • Great Pondhawk
  • Hercules Skimmer
  • Large Woodskimmer
  • Little Swamp Dasher
  • Lowland Knobtail
  • Malachite Darner
  • Masked Clubskimmer
  • Metallic Pennant
  • Mexican Scarlet-tail
  • Peten Dasher
  • Pin-tailed Pondhawk
  • Red-faced Dragonlet
  • Red-tailed Skimmer
  • Roseate Skimmer
  • Ruddy Streamskimmer
  • Slender Clubskimmer
  • Slender Skimmer
  • Spine-bellied Dryad
  • Spot-tailed Dasher
  • Square-spotted Dasher
  • Swamp Skimmer
  • Tropical Woodskimmer
  • Turquoise-tipped Darner
  • Two-striped Leaftail
  • Vivacious Clubskimmer
  • Wandering Glider
  • White-tailed Sylph
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