Welcome to OdonataCentral

This site is designed to make available what we know about the distribution, biogeography, biodiversity, and identification of Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) world-wide. Use the navigation bars at the top of the page to move around in the site. Click here for a history and update of the site that appeared in Argia 22(4): 2010.

Official Checklist to North American Odonata

News

OdonataCentral is now accepting donations
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New Features and Improvements to OdonataCentral
In addition to fixing some known bugs, we have implemented some new features to OdonataCentral. These include: improved drop-down menus, added a searchable directory of registered users, added the ability to upload large datasets as a batch, and made enhancements to the photo gallery.

Dragonfly Society of the Americas
OdonataCentral hosts the official website of the Dragonfly Society of the Americas. The journals Argia and the Bulletin of American Odonatology are online and searchable.

Checklist of North
American Odonata,
2011 Edition, by
D. Paulson & S. Dunkle

New Book
Dragonflies &
Damselflies of the
East, 2011 by
D. Paulson

New Book
Natural History of
Delmarva Dragonflies
and Damselflies
by H. White

Virtual Odonata Image Library
OdonataCentral now hosts a virtual library of odonata species. You can zoom, rotate and pan the images. 

 

Click here to see the new Virtual Image Library

 


Latest Record Submissions

OC #367124, Arigomphus lentulus in Faulkner County, Arkansas, United States was submitted by Rusty & Anne Baldwin on 2012-Jan-27.
OC #367123, Enallagma civile in Travis County, Texas, United States was submitted by Eric Isley on 2012-Jan-27.
OC #367122, Tramea carolina in Broward County, Florida, United States was submitted by Jeffrey Lubchansky on 2012-Jan-24.
OC #367121, Gynacantha nervosa in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States was submitted by Jeffrey Lubchansky on 2012-Jan-24.
OC #367120, Erythemis vesiculosa in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States was submitted by Jeffrey Lubchansky on 2012-Jan-24.

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