Odonata

For visitors: frequently asked questions about dragonflies

• Odonata: overview of biology
• Evolution of the Odonata and related groups
• Work in progress
• News and views
• Coming events
• Opinions
• Picture gallery

Resources

• Tillyard 1917 The Biology of Dragonflies
• Tillyard 1917 'The morphology of the caudal gills of the larvae of zygopterid dragonflies'
• Corbet, Philip S. 1962 A biology of dragonflies
  This is the Witherby edition, out of print, complementary to the 1999 book. Presented by arrangement with the author.

• Raising larvae
• For establishment of ponds for dragonflies see the British Dragonfly Association site

coming

• Corbet's notation for the larval labium

Address for comments and submissions Richard.Rowe@jcu.edu.au.
Every effort will be made to keep this page topical but I can only do so much.
I reserve the right to make editorial modifications to items or to reject items not in keeping with the format of this page.

Other Odonata sites:

There are too many 'dragonfly' sites, including a rock band and restaurants. It is better to search on 'odonata', even then there are now an awful lot.
This is a selection:

• Tree of life page
• Listing of species (Schorr, Lindeboom, Paulson)
• Biosis site
• Megalagrion conservation: Damsels in distress: a review of the conservation status of Hawaiian Megalagrion damselflies (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) by Dan A. Polhemus
• Takashi Aoki's Dragonflies of Japan including
  What is Odonata? a good account with several pictures of Epiophlebia
• digital dragonflies - great pictures of southern US fauna
• Gunther Bechly's page of links

More:

• Worldwide Dragonfly Association
• BDS - British Dragonfly Society
• The International odonata Research Institute lots of links
• International Dragonfly Fund
• Foundation Societas Internationalis Odonatologica, American information

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