Threatened dragonflies in Ukraine
Dragonflies are important indicatiors of environmental health, which reacts to changes the quality of the waters where larvae live as well as the structure of the habitats (Schindler et al., 2003). Therefore, the global destruction and pollution of the natural habitats causes to inclusion increasingly more of dragonfly species in the national Red Lists. Recently, the threatened species amounts more than 20% of the total dragonfly species of Ukraine (see Table).
Threatened dragonfly species in Ukraine
Species * |
Red Book of Ukraine |
European Red List |
Bern Convention |
Calopterygidae: |
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Calopteryxtaurica |
II |
|
|
Calopteryx virgo |
II |
|
|
Lestidae: |
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Lestes macrostigma |
|
VU |
|
Sympecma paedisca |
|
|
+ |
Coenagrionidae: |
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Cercion lindenii |
III |
|
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Coenagrion mercuriale |
|
|
+ |
Aeshnidae: |
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Aeshna viridis |
|
|
+ |
Anax imperator |
II |
|
|
Gomphidae: |
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Ophiogomphus cecilia |
II |
|
+ |
Stylurus flavipes |
|
|
+ |
Cordulegastridae: |
|
|
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Cordulegaster botlonii |
II |
|
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Cordulegaster bidentatus |
I |
|
|
Libellulidae: |
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Leucorrhinia albifrons |
I |
|
+ |
Leucorrhinia caudalis |
|
|
+ |
Leucorrhinia pectoralis |
|
|
+ |
Sympetrum depressiusculum |
|
VU |
|
Sympetrum pedemontanum |
II |
|
|
Abbreviations: I - endangered, II - vulnerable, III - rare, VU - vulnerable. Nomenclature of taxa is given by World Species List - ODONATA (http://www.calopteryx.de/idf/)
References
Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats. http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/FR/Treaties/Html/104-2.htm#Arthropods/Arthropodes
Kalkman V.J., Boudot J.P., Bernard R., Conze K.J., Knijf G., Dyatlova E., Ferreira S., Jovic M., Ott J., Riservato E, G. Sahlen. European Red List of Dragonfies. – Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2010. – 30 p. PDF
Schindler M., Fesl C., Chovanec A. Dragonfly associations (Insecta: Odonata) in relation to habitat variables: a multivariate approach // Hydrobiologia . – 2003. – Vol. 497. – P. 169–180.
Red Book . Animals. – K.: Ukr. Globalconsalting, 2009. – 624 p. [in Ukrainian]
The chapter prepared by Denis Buy and Natalia Matushkina.
Female of Sympecma paedisca. Kiev, Trukhanov Insel, 1 May 2008 (photo by Natalia Matushkina).
