We will warmly welcome any addition to the present list. Extra data or comments may be sent to one of the authors by email marc.tailly@pandora.be or vananian72@yahoo.com, or by mail to Marc Tailly, Hoonakkerdreef 35, B-8791 Waregem (Belgium).
A small number of in Armenia made slides are shown on the next pages.
Photopage 1 – photopage
2 – photopage 3
A number of species have been found in nearby parts of Georgia, Turkey, Azerbaijan or Iran in similar habitats and/or at similar altitudes. Because the country has not been very well explored for Odonata (except the work by Akramowski) chances are real that some of the following will be discovered within the Republic of Armenia.
Candidates are:
Coenagrion ponticum: present in N.E. Turkey and Georgia
Coenagrion armatum: known from Armenian Highlands in Turkey at heights
between 1900 and 2100 m, so probably to be found in Armenian Highlands
Coenagrion mercuriale: once found (Akramowski, 1948) in Ordubat,
Nachichevan.
Aeshna juncea: could be found in Armenian Highlands, as the species is
present in nearby Turkey in similar habitat
Cordulia aenea: already found in Georgia and NE-Turkey
Sympetrum haritonovi
Finally, thanks to Marcel Wasscher and Vincent Kalkman for their support and comments.
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Akramowski, N.N. 1948. Fauna strekoz Sovietskoi Armenii (The dragonfly fauna of the Soviet Armenia) - Zool. Zb. Akad. NAUK Armenian SSR. Erevan, 5: 117-188 (in russian)
Akramowski, N.N. 1964. Dopolnenie k fauna Strekoz Vostotchnogo zakavkazia (Insecta: Odonata). (Supplement to the dragonfly fauna of eastern transcaucasia) – Izv. Akad. NAUK Armenian SSR, 17: 99-101 (in russian)
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Akramowski, N. N. 1975. [Some dragonfly species of special interest from the Caucasus and Transcaucasia and proposals for their protection]. In: On insect protection, proceedings of the 2nd conference [in Russian]. – Ministry of Agriculture of the Armenian SSR & Academy of Sciences of the Arm. SSR, Yerevan.
Dumont, H.J., A. Demirsoy & D. Verschuren. 1987. Breaking the Calopteryx-bottleneck: taxonomy and range of Calopteryx splendens waterstoni Schneider, 1984 and of C. splendens tschaldirica Bartenef, 1909 (Zygoptera: Calopterygidae). – Odonatologicae 16: 239-247
Jödicke, R. 1994. Subspecific division of Sympetrum sinaiticum
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update: 22.12.2004