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The Dragonflies (Insecta: Odonata)
of the Columbia Basin, British Columbia:
Field Surveys, Collections Development and Public Education

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Appendix 1: Checklist of Columbia Basin Dragonflies

66 species known in region (77% of provincial fauna). At least seven additional species probably occur in the region (total of 73 species or 85% of provincial fauna); these are marked with an asterisk (*). Seventeen of this total of seventy-three dragonfly species are considered rare and potentially threatened, and are marked with double asterisks (**) -- 13 of these are recorded from the Columbia Basin.

 

Order Odonata
Suborder Zygoptera (Damselflies)
Family Calopterygidae
(1 species recorded) 		Jewelwings
Calopteryx aequabilis Say (**) River Jewelwing

Family Lestidae
(5 species recorded)

 Spreadwings
Lestes congener Hagen Spotted Spreadwing
Lestes disjunctus Selys Common Spreadwing
Lestes dryas Kirby Emerald Spreadwing
Lestes forcipatus Rambur (**) Sweetflag Spreadwing
Lestes unguiculatus Hagen Lyre-tipped Spreadwing
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