Who participates in this project

Who participated in this project (closed in 2009)

On this page the people who are interested in studying the dragonflies in this area. Part of info is old. Changes can be send to (see "Contact").

the former web-team

Vincent Kalkman
Antoine van der Heijden
Gert Jan van Pelt
Marcel Wasscher

authors of online-publications

Marc Tailly
Anatoly Haritonov
H.A. Ketenchiev
Klaas Douwe Dijkstra

Niels Dingemans
Rienk Geene
Arjan Kop
Vasil Ananian

contributors of pictures

Rolf Busse
Hans-Ulrich Kohler
Harm Niessen
Jean-Pierre Boudot

contributors of knowledge

Reinhard Joedicke
Henri Dumont
Wolfgang Schneider
Oleg Kosterin

living in or near the region

Ali Salur
Sevilhan Mennan
Milen Marinov
Cosmin Manci

interested in the region

				Bernd Kunz Matjaz Bedjanic Keith Morris Geert De Knijf
				Luc Meuris Daniel Haubreux Nino Mihokovic
				Wolfgang Lopau Nigel Willits Elena Dyatlova Robert Geerts

In alphabetic order of Surname (e-mail addresses are modificated to reduce spam)


Vasil Ananian: Armenia, vananian72{at}yahoo.com
Date of birth: 1 June 1972
Interest: Birdwatching, wildlife art and photography; terrarium hobby (mainly, Geckos and Treefrogs); and recently dragonflies.
Work: a) In the past - during 1994-1996 instrumental and field researcher in the production of both "The Field Guide to the Birds of Armenia" and the "Handbook of the Birds of Armenia";in 1999 took a part in raptor migration survey at the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary in US;
b) Currently guiding international birdwatching tours in Armenia.
You may also take a look at www.fatbirder.com >Middle East > Armenia.


Matjaz Bedjanic: Fram 117/a, SI-2313 Fram, Slovenia, matjaz.bedjanic{at}guest.arnes.si
Date of birth: 17 October 1972
Interest: Taxonomy, zoogeography, distribution of dragonflies on the Balkan Penninsula, studies of disjunct population of some taxa in southern Balkans, SE Asian dragonflies (taxonomy,zoogeography).
Work: - Studies on the dragonflies of Sri Lanka (PhD project); - Dragonfly fauna of Slovenia and neighbouring countries; - Cordulegaster heros in Europe


Jean-Pierre Boudot: Nancy, France jean-pierre.boudot{at}limos.uhp-nancy.fr
Date of birth: 31 July 1948 in Paris (France)
Interest: As Odonatologist I have a large number of dia slides on Odonata from North Africa, Europe and Asia Minor. Besides some papers of more local interest for East France, I wrote some papers on the subspeciation of Onychogomphus forcipatus and Cordulegaster boltonii in Europe, North-Africa and Asia Minor. Also, I collaborated to the second edition of the French "Guide des Libellules d'Europe et d'Afrique du Nord" by J. d'Aguilar and J.L. Dommanget (Delachaux et Niestlé, ed.) (1998), and I am the co-author with Gilles Jacquemin of the book "Les Odonates (Libellules) du Maroc" (S.F.O., France, 1999), a fauna dealing with the North African Odonata. Work Presently, I am working as Pedologist (Pedology is soil science) at the CNRS, the French National Center for Scientific Research, and, more precisely, I work about soil and surface water acidification due to acid rain.


Klaas-Douwe "KD" B. Dijkstra: Leiden, The Netherlands dijkstra{at}naturalis.nnm.nl
Date of birth: 7 January 1975
Interest: The catch of Hemianax ephippiger in 1995, the first for The Netherlands, sparked my enthusiasm for dragonflies. I founded Brachytron, the first Dutch journal of odonatology, in 1997. I am on the editorial board of the atlas of Dutch Odonata since 1998. Collection trips to Uganda and Ghana initiated a passion for Afrotropical Odonata. Currently I am erecting PHAON (Pinhey's Heritage African Odonata Network), the African counterpart of Epallage. Other activities are the study of the dragonfly fauna of Belarus and the revision of Coeliccia from Borneo and the Philippines.
Work: At present I am working for Trezorix, a company that makes information applications for museums. The company is based at the National Museum of Natural History in Leiden.

Elena Dyatlova: Odessa, Ukraine lena.dyatlova{at}gmail.com
Date of birth: 20 June 1983
Interest: I study fauna, ecology, phenology, variability, female-limited polymorphism (Ischnura, Coenagrion species) and distribution of dragonflies in the SW Ukraine (Danube, Dniestr, South Bug, Dnieper basins).
Work: I am bachelor of biology (since 2004). In 2005 I am going to become MSc and like to continue work with dragonflies. My second group is caddisflies (Trichoptera). Summary of two publications click here or see http://www.v-zool.kiev.ua/tocs/38-5.htm (in Ukrainian).

Robert Geerts: Germany rgeerts{at}odonata.eu
Date of birth: *
Interest: I am the person behind Odonata.EU. I am located in Germany and have lots of pictures online of dragonfly species that occur in Europe.see. www.odonata.eu
Work: *

Daniel Haubreux: Berlaimont, France daniel.haubreux{at}wanadoo.fr
Date of birth: 23 January 1967
Interest: Naturalist activity (birds, dragonflies ...etc)
Work: Biology teacher


Antoine E. van der Heijden: Gouda, The Netherlands dragonflies{at}europe.com Website http://fly.to/dragonflies
Date of birth: 4 May, 1976
Interest: I’m most interested in photographing dragonflies, especially in Europe but also anywhere else when I‘ve got a chance. Furthermore, my interest includes dragonfly biodiversity. I’m also interested (more so because of my study) in web technology and web design.
Work: Currently studying Industrial Design Engineering at the Technical University of Delft. This is a combination of engineering and creative design. Biology is currently a hobby of mine, but I hope I’ll be able to combine biomechanics and design professionally later on.


Reinhard Joedicke: Lindern in NW Germany IJOediting{at}aol.com
Date of birth: 1 july 1948 in Leipzig
Interest: All dragonflies from Eurasia and Africa.
Work: Seasonality of spp. in the Maghreb, taxonomy of Lestidae, Sympetrum spp., Enallagma spp., checklist of Namibia, seasonal adaptations in arid parts of southern Africa.


Vincent J. Kalkman: Bloemendaal, The Netherlands Kalkman{at}naturalis.nnm.nl
Date of birth: 9 August 1974
Interest: My active interest in Odonata started in 1989 with a wandering individual of Calopteryx splendens. Since 1992 I have been active in the organising-committee of the Dutch Odonata mapping project. From the founding in 1997 till 2000 I have been chairman of the Dutch Dragonfly Organisation. The last years my interest in dragonflies was more and more drawn to foreign countries resulting in numerous trips to various European countries. At the moment I'm mostly interested in the fauna of Turkey and Iran.
Work: I work for the European Invertebrate Survey - The Netherlands. This organisation is part of the National Museum of Natural History (Leiden) and organises a mapping project of various groups of invertebrates. It gives advises to governmental and nature conservation organisation on the protection of invertebrates. I only work three days in a week in order to have enough time for my Odonata-projects.


Geert De Knijf: Ghent, Belgium geert.de.knijf{at}instnat.be Internet www.gomphus.be
Date of birth: 1967
Interest: North Africa & Middle East & European dragonflies
Work: Institute of Nature Conservation, Kliniekstraat 25, B-1070 Brussels


Oleg Kosterin: Ilyicha str. 21, flat 204, Novosibirsk, 630090. Russia kosterin{at}bionet.nsc.ru Website: http://pisum.bionet.nsc.ru/kosterin mirror site: http://gemone6.cpmc.columbia.edu/~kosterin
Date of birth: 16th June 1963
Interest: Dragonfly fauna and taxonomy of North and Central Asia, their behaviour a little, photography, as well: the same for butterflies, plant genetics, evolutionary theory.
Work: researcher at the Laboratory of Experimental Modelling of Evolutionary Processes at the Institute of Cytology & Genetics of Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences


Arjan Kop: Oegstgeest, The Netherlands koparjan{at}hotmail.com
Date of birth: 14 april 1977
Interest: I have been interested in dragonflies and their larvae for about four years now. In those years I’ve tried to become acquainted with the morphological characters of the larvae of all European species.
Work: At present I am in the third year of my study of biology at the University of Leiden.


Bernd Kunz: 74595 Langenburg, (South-west) Germany kunzFOTOGRAFIE{at}gmx.de
Date of birth: 11 April 1967
Interest: Europe, Germany, South.Germany, Sardegna, Tunisia
Work: Tunisia

Cosmin Ovidiu Manci: Timisoara, Romania, cosmamanci{at}ti.slr.com
Date of birth: 11 June 1978
Interest: Odonata , Coleoptera (Cerambycoidea, Scaraboidea, Buprestoidea) Lepidoptera (Macros and some micros)
Work: Actually student at biology


Milen Marinov: Sofia, Bulgaria mg_marinov{at}yahoo.com
Date of birth: 25 July 1968
Interest: Dragonfly population ecology
Work: In my PhD, I have summarized all the existence information on Bulgarian dragonflies (published and not published), mapping species distribution, giving the current knowledge on species zoogeography and phenology, comparing Odonata fauna of the Balkan peninsula countries.

Sevilhan Mennan: Samsun, Turkey hmennan{at}omu.edu.tr
Date of birth: 1970, Gelibolu
Interest: Entomology. Now, I am collecting the fauna of Odonata in Samsun.
Work: MSc: Root-knot nematodes in Black See Region, 1996; PhD: D. dipsaci in onion in Amasya, 2001.
Now: Research and teaching assistant in 19 May Un. Agr. Fac., Plant Protection Dep. Entomology Division, Samsun, Turkey.

Keith Morris: Arisaig, Back Lane, Monks Eleigh, Suffolk, United kingdom, K IP7 7BA keith{at}najas.freeserve.co.uk
Date of birth: 12 may 1943
Interest: UK-creating wet meadow reserves, Israel-dragonflies of northern Israel, Algarve-preparatory work for dragonfly atlas, CZRep-general vaskology
Work: Retired but see above!

Luc Meuris: Gent, Belgium luc.meuris{at}belgacom.net
Date of birth: 10 july 1953
Interest: Photography, monitoring and field research on European dragonflies. Together with my son I am also breeding the larvae to photograph larval stages and emergence.
Work: Photography editor and graphic designer (map-drawing) for the periodical of "Natuurreservaten" (Nature reserves), the biggest nature conservation association in Belgium.


Nino Mihokovic: Zagreb, Croatia nino.mihokovic{at}inet.hr
Date of birth: 23 February 1981 in Cakovec (Croatia)
Interest: Odonata fauna of Mediterranean countries and south-eastern Europe, larval spatial displacement, larval ecology, population genetics and polycromatism in Zygoptera females.
Work: Currently a biology (ecology) student in Zagreb.


Gert Jan van Pelt: Residence Leiden, The Netherlands gj.vanpelt{at}wolmail.nl
Date of birth: 3 January 1957
Interest: During my study biology, I have been working on the Palaearctic representatives of the genus Cordulegaster, and I haven’t stopped since. I conduct my research especially in Greece and Turkey, where I try to establish the delimitations between closely related species and subspecies.; European and West-Asian Cordulegaster are divisible into two species-groups, the C. boltonii and the C. bidentata species-group. Within each species-group, all species are essentially vicarious, that is, the ranges of the species do not (or hardly) overlap, a rather unique situation within Odonata. The biological mechanism beyond this phenomenon, and its evolutionary origin, are unknown as yet. I try to gain information on this subject during field work and by examining collected material. Publication e.g. On dragonflies from Greece in the RMNH collection, Leiden, the Netherlands. LIBELLULA SUPPLEMENT 2, 1999: 77-90
Work: I work as Desk Editor for various biological journals.

Marc Tailly: Waregem, Belgium marc.tailly{at}pandora.be Website: http://www.dbs.be/marc/home.htm
Date of birth: 17 juni 1955
Interest: Doing the lay-out of the journal of the Belgian Odonata working group "Gomphus" and now creating a website for the Flemish part of the group. Also since long active in a local conservation group. I love to travel with a broad interest in culture, people and nature, but lack the time and freedom to do so, which I compensate by studying languages (Spanish, Russian). I have visited Armemia again in 2001.
Work: Working as accountant and EDP-responsable in a small business


Marcel Wasscher: Utrecht, The Netherlands marcel.hilair{at}12move.nl
Date of birth: 27 April 1958
Interest: My major interest goes now to the dragonflies of Suriname; Europe, Turkey and China have had my interest too. Together with my odonatological companions Frank Bos and Weia Reinboud I published an European fieldguide on dragonflies in Dutch: Bos, Wasscher & Reinboud (2007) from which in 1997 the first print had been published.
I have written a wide variety of articles (e.g. in 2000 on the biodiversity of dragonflies in Europe and in 1998 I described Metaleptobasis cyanolineata as a new species from Suriname).
Work: Working as teacher Biology on a secondary school (Sint Vituscollege Bussum).

Nigel Willits
London, Umited Kingdom willits1960{at}hotmail.com
Date of birth: 17 August 1960
Interest: I have a degree in Zoology, mainly interested in birds, other vertebrates & insects. My main place of interest in Eastern Med is Rhodes where I've been a couple of times doing historical research (Knights of St. John) for stories I write. I intend being a regular visitor there. I am gathering wildlife records for the island with a vague plan to write a book.
Work: My main income now is from I.T. support but I also do voluntary conservation work & hope to get a job with a conservation organisation soon.

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