At this moment 109 taxa of dragonflies are known to occur in
Turkey.
Since the publications of Dumont (1977) and Demirsoy (1982) 16 (sub)species
are new for the Turkish fauna:
Calopteryx splendens waterstoni Schneider, 1984
Coenagrion ponticum (Bartenev, 1929)
Coenagrion pulchellum pulchellum (Vander Linden, 1825)
Coenagrion pulchellum saisanicum Belyshev, 1964
Coenagrion vanbrinkae Lohmann, 1993
Cercion lindenii zernyi Schmidt, 1939
Pseudagrion syriacum (Sélys, 1887)
Aeshna cyanea (O.F. Müller, 1764)
Lindenia tetraphylla (Vander Linden, 1825)
Anormogomphus kiritshenkoi Bartenev, 1913
Cordulegaster insignis mzymtae Bartenev, 1929
Cordulia aenea (Linnaeus, 1758)
Crocothemis servilia (Drury 1770)
Sympetrum haritonovi Borisov 1983
Trithemis arteriosa (Burmeister 1839)
In the notes the sources of the new found species, the species to be expected (see further) and the four species omitted form the list (Coenagrion hastulatum and Cordulegaster bidentata) are given.
The expected species
Calopteryx hyalina Martin, 1909
S Lestes viridis (Vander Linden, 1825)
W Agriocnemis sania Nielsen, 1959
S Ischnura evansi Morton, 1919
Ischnura fountaineae Morton, 1905
Ischnura senegalensis (Rambur, 1842)
Erythromma najas (Hansemann, 1823)
W Coenagrion persicum Lohmann, 1993
SE Gomphus flavipes flavipes (Charpentier, 1825)
W Gomphus kinzelbachi Schneider, 1984
Onychogomphus forcipatus forcipatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
NE Ophiogomphus cecilia (Fourcroy, 1785)
E Paragomphus genei (Sélys, 1841)
Orthetrum ransonnetti (Brauer, 1865)
Sympetrum danae (Sulzer, 1776)
NW Sympetrum vulgatum vulgatum (Linnaeus, 1758)
NW Leucorrhinia caudalis (Charpentier, 1840)
NW Zygonyx torridus (Kirby, 1889)
S
Which part of Turkey they are expected:
S - Southern, SE - Southeastern, W - Western, NE - Northeastern and NW -
Northwestern.