Dragonfly Literature

DRAGONFLY IDENTIFICATION

This list includes all recently produced field guides. Some are out of print.

Fieldguides - Britain & Ireland

Brooks, S.J. 1997. Field Guide to the Dragonflies and Damselflies of Great Britain and Ireland British Wildlife Publishing, Hook.
Gibbons, R.B. 1986. Dragonflies and Damselflies of Britain and Northern Europe. Country Life Books/Hamlyn, Twickenham.
Hammond, C.O. 1983. The Dragonflies of Great Britain and Ireland. 2nd edition revised by R. Merritt. Harley Books, Colchester.
McGeeney, A. 1986. A complete guide to British dragonflies. Cape, London.
Powell, D. 1999. A Guide to the Dragonflies of Great Britain. Arlequin Press, Chelmsford.

European fauna

Askew, R.R. 1988. The dragonflies of Europe. Harley Books, Colchester.
D'Aguilar, J., J-L. Dommanget & R. Prehec. 1986. A field Guide to the Dragonflies of Britain, Europe and North Africa. (English edition edited by S. Brooks). Collins, London.
Norling, U & G. Sahlén. 1997. Odonata, Dragonflies. In Anders Nilsson (ed) The aquatic Insects of North Europe 2: 13-66. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark.

GENERAL READING

Corbet, P.S. 1962. A biology of dragonflies. Witherby, London (reprinted 1983 Classey, Farringdon).
Corbet, P.S. 1999. Dragonflies: behaviour and ecology of Odonata. Harley Books, Colchester.
Corbet, P.S., C. Longfield & N.W. Moore. 1960. Dragonflies Collins, London. Revised edition 1985.
Longfield, C. 1937. The Dragonflies of the British Isles. Warne, London. 2 nd edition 1949.
Merritt, R., N.W. Moore & B.C. Eversham. 1996. Atlas of the dragonflies of Britain and Ireland. Institute of Terrestrial Ecology Research Publication No. 9. HMSO, London.
Miller, P.L. 1987. Dragonflies. Naturalists' Handbooks 7. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Van Tol, J & M.J. Verdonk. 1988. The protection of dragonflies (Odonata) and their biotopes. Nature and Environment Series No. 38, Council of Europe, Strasbourg.

OTHER USEFUL PUBLICATIONS

Ashe, P., J.P. O'Connor & D.A. Murray. 1998. A Checklist of Irish Aquatic Insects. Occasional Publication of the Irish biogeographical Society No. 3.
Fittter, R & R. Manuel. 1986. Field Guide to Fresh Water Life. Collins, London.
Nelson, B. 2000. Dragonflies of the Burren and surrounding areas. Atropos 11: 9
Ryan, J.G., J.P. O'Connor & B.P. Beirne. 1984. A bibliography of Irish entomology. The Flyleaf Press, Dublin.

SELECTED PAPERS RELATING TO THE IRISH FAUNA

Bond, K.G.M. 1989. Aeshna cyanea (Müller) Odonata Aeshnidae, a dragonfly new to Ireland. Irish Naturalists' Journal 23: 73-74.
Cotton, D.C.F. 1981. Some new records and an appraisal of the published records for Ischnura pumilio (Charpentier)(Odonata: Coenagriidae) in Ireland. Entomologists' Gazette 33: 59-64.
Cotton, D.C.F. 1982. Coenagrion lunulatum (Charpentier)(Odonata: Coenagrionidae) new to the British Isles. Entomologists' Gazette 33: 213-214.
Faris, R.C. 1943. A dragonfly new to Ireland, Sympetrum fonscolombii Selys. Irish Naturalists' Journal 8: 114.
Faris, R.C. & F.J. O'Rourke. 1946. Orthetrum cancellatum L., a dragonfly new to Ireland, and other dragonfly notes from Connaught. Irish Naturalists' Journal 8: 387-390.
Fox, A.D. 1989. Ischnura pumilio (Charpentier)(Odonata: Coenagrionidae) - a wandering opportunist? Entomologist's Record 101: 25-26.
Goyvaerts, P. 1979. Cordulia aenea (Odonata: Corduliidae) a new county record. Irish Naturalists' Journal 19: 329.
Graves, P.P. 1947. Odonata at Killarney. Irish Naturalists' Journal 9: 61-63.
Hämäläinen, M. 1985. Notes on "nigrescens-like" specimens of Sympetrum striolatum (Odonata, Libellulidae) in the Åland Islands. Notulae Entomologica 65: 68.
King, J.J.F.X. & J.N. Halbert. 1910. A list of the Neuroptera of Ireland. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 28B: 29-112.
Longfield, C. 1948. A vast immigration of dragonflies into the south coast of Co. Cork. Irish Naturalists' Journal 9: 134-141.
Merritt, R & G.S. Vick. 1983. Is Sympetrum nigrescens Lucas a good species? Journal of the British Dragonfly Society 1: 7-8
Moore, N.W. 1980. Lestes dryas Kirby - a declining species of dragonfly (Odonata) in need of conservation: notes on its status and habitat in England and Ireland. Biological Conservation 17: 143-148.
Nelson, B. 1985 Coenagrion lunulatum (Odonata) new to Co. Fermanagh. Irish Naturalists' Journal 21:503-504
Nelson, B. 1986 The Odonata of the North of Ireland. Journal of the British Dragonfly Society 2: 21-23
Nelson, B. 1999. The status and habitat of the Irish damselfly Coenagrion lunulatum (Charpentier) (Odonata) in Northern Ireland. Entomologists' Monthly Magazine 135: 59-68.
Nelson, B., R. Northridge & I. Rippey. 1989. The Odonata of Co. Fermanagh. Bulletin of the Irish biogeographical Society 12: 113-134.
O'Connor, J.P., M.A. O'Connor & D.C.F. Cotton. 1983. Lestes dryas Kirby (Insecta: Odonata) discovered in eastern Ireland. Irish Naturalists' Journal 21: 34-35
Parr, A. 1999. Migrant and dispersive dragonflies in Britain and Ireland during 1998. Journal of the British Dragonfly Society 15: 51-57
Parr, A. 2000. An Annotated List of the Odonata of Britain and Ireland. Atropos 11: 10-20
Rippey, I. & B. Nelson. 1988. Odonata in the north of Ireland in 1986/87. Journal of the British Dragonfly Society 4: 13-18.
Silsby, J. & Ward-Smith, A.J. 1997. The influx of Sympetrum flaveolum (L.) during the summer of 1995. Journal of the British Dragonfly Society 13: 14-22
Speight, M.C.D. & J. Legrand. 1984. Coenagrion lunulatum (Odonata): morphology of the female and notes on a second Irish colony. Irish Naturalists' Journal 21: 237-242.

Nelson, B., Thompson, R. & Morrow, C., 2000 (September 12). [In] DragonflyIreland https://habitas.org/odonata/