French Polynesia Odonata Checklist

FRENCH POLYNESIA DRAGONFLY/DAMSELFLY CHECKLIST (note: these are names extracted from literature records) Species recorded from Moorea outlined in yellow. G.M. Nishida, Version 2008 September 22

ORDER Family Genus Austral Gambier Marquesas Society Tuamotu Outside French Polynesia ODONATA: Anisoptera Aeshnidae Anaciaeschna jaspidea (Burmeister, 1839) Rurutu, Moorea, Cook Is (Rarotonga) ; Fiji; Mariana Is (Guam); Tubuai Tahiti Samoa; AUSTRALASIAN: Vanuatu; INDOMALAYAN: Borneo; S. India; Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, Lombok); Ryukyu Is; Taiwan; Asia Anax gibbosulus (Rambur, 1842) Tahiti Fakarava AUSTRALASIAN: Australia; New Caledonia; INDOMALAYAN: East Indies guttatus (Burmeister, 1839) Moorea, Tuamotu Is Cook Is (Rarotonga); Mariana Is (Saipan); South Tahiti Pacific; AUSTRALASIAN: Australia; INDOMALAYAN: India; Indonesia (Java); Malay archipelago; East Indies; Chinese coast junius (Drury, 1770) Society Is Hawaiian Is; NEARCTIC: North America from Illinois to Mexico and California to the Atlantic; NEOTROPIC: Cuba; PALEARCTIC: China; Kamchatka Corduliidae Hemicordulia assimilis Hagen, 1871 Hivaoa, Tahiti AUSTRALASIAN: Indonesia (Celebes); Solomon Is Tahuata mumfordi Needham, 1933 Hivaoa oceanica Selys-Longchamps, 1871 Nukuhiva Tahiti Tonga; AUSTRALASIAN: New Caledonia, doubtfully from New Britain. Libellulidae Diplacodes bipunctata (Brauer, 1865) Rapa, Marquesas Is Borabora; Fakarava Cook Is (Pukapuka, Rarotonga) ; Fiji; Kiribati (Line Rurutu, Moorea, Is: Kiritimati, Phoenix Is); Mariana Is (Guam); Tubuai Raiatea, Amrerican Samoa (Swains I); Tonga (Tongatapu, Tahiti Vavau); Tuvalu (Ellice Is); AUSTRALASIAN: Australia; Indonesia (Lesser Sunda Is, Moluccas); New Britain; New Caledonia; New Zealand; Vanuatu remota Ris, 1911 SEE Diplacodes trivialis trivialis (Rambur, 1842) Tahiti Fiji (Viti Levu); Samoa; AUSTRALASIAN: Australia (Queensland); New Guinea; Vanuatu; INDOMALAYAN: Burma; Hainan; India; Malaysia (Penang); Philippines; Seychelles; Sri Lanka; Taiwan; Vietnam; E. Indies; PALEARCTIC: Japan; Cosmopolitan Pantala flavescens (Fabricius, 1798) Rapa, Eiao, Moorea, Cook Is (Pukapuka, Rarotonga) ; Easter I; Hawaiian Rurutu, Fatuhiva, Raiatea, Is; Kiribati (Phoenix Is); Line Is (Palmyra); Mariana Tubuai Hivaoa, Tahiti Is (Guam); Tonga (Tongatapu, Vavau); Nukuhiva, AUSTRALASIAN: Australia; AFROTROPIC: Tahuata, Africa; NEARCTIC/NEOTROPIC: America; Uahuka INDOMALAYAN: India (type locality); Asia; Cosmopolitan Rhyothemis sp. Nukuhiva Tholymis tillarga (Fabricius, 1798) Hivaoa Moorea, Cook Is (Rarotonga); Mariana Is (Guam); Tonga Tahiti (Tongatapu, Vavau); AFROTROPIC/INDOMALAYAN: Old World tropics Tramea limbata (Desjardins, 1835) Rurutu, Moorea, Tuamotu Is Mariana Is (Guam); Samoa; Tonga (Tongatapu, Tubuai Tahiti Vavau); AUSTRALASIAN: W. Australia; Bismarck Archipelago; Indonesia (Moluccas); Vanuatu; AFROTROPIC: Senegal; continental Africa, Madagascar; other African islands; INDOMALAYAN: Burma; India; Malaysia; Taiwan; East Indies; Indochina; Cosmopolitan

ODONATA: Zygoptera Coenagrionidae Agriocnemis sp. Tahiti Bedfordia demorsa (Needham, 1933) Hivaoa, Nukuhiva halecarpenteri (Mumford, 1942) Tahuata, Uapou sp. Tahiti interruptum (Needham, 1932) SEE Bedfordia halecarpenteri Coenagrion interruptum Needham, 1932 SEE Bedfordia halecarpenteri melanoproctum (Selys-Longchamps, "Polynesia" 1876) Ischnura aurora Brauer, 1865 Rurutu, Fatuhiva, Borabora; Tuamotu Is Cook Is (Pukapuka, Rarotonga); Mariana Is (Guam), Tubuai Hivaoa, Moorea; Tuvalu (Ellice Is); AUSTRALASIAN: Australia; Nukuhiva, Raiatea; AFROTROPIC: N Africa; INDOMALAYAN: India; Tahuata, Tahiti Sri Lanka; East Indies Uahuka, Uapou cardinalis Kimmins, 1929 Borabora, Raiatea, Tahiti cheesmani Fraser, 1942 SEE Ischnura taitensis n.sp. Rurutu spinicauda (Brauer, 1865) Tahiti "Polynesia" taitensis Selys-Longchamps, 1876 Tahiti thelmae Lieftinck, 1966 Rapa Pseudagrion demorsum Needham, 1933 SEE Bedfordia demorsa