New, rare and vagrant damselflies and dragonflies (Insecta: Odonata) in the Kaliningrad Oblast, north-western Russia

• Main Authors: Shapoval, Nazar, Shapoval, Galina, Shapoval, Anatoly
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2022
• Subjects: Baltic Sea; Courish (Curonian) Spit; damselflies; dragonflies; first records; North-Western Russia; Sibirica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7703376

The paper presents new remarkable records of selected rare and uncommon Odonata species found in the Kaliningrad Oblast based primarily on our surveys conducted since 2007. Two species, Erythromma viridulum (Charpentier, 1840) and Anax ephippiger (Burmeister, 1839) are new to the region. The total number of Odonata species currently known for the territory of the Kaliningrad Oblast amounted to 66. Among them, 61 species have been recorded on the Courish (Curonian) Spit of the Baltic Sea. We are grateful to Prof. Valentina Kuznetsova and Dr. Anatoly Krupitsky for valuable comments and suggestions. The financial support for this study was provided by the state research projects No. 122031100272-3 and No. 122031100261-7.