Dragonflies and Damselflies of Ecuador

William Haber
Electronic Field Guide Project, University of Massachusetts, Boston

David Wagner, University of Connecticut, Storrs


Introduction References Family Descriptions      

Family Summaries

These short descriptions of Odonata families emphasize characters for identification that are useful in the field and in the hand. The summary is accompanied by a plate of thumbnails that provides an overview of the family and the included genera.

Damselflies

Calopterygidae Coenagrionidae Dicteriadidae Lestidae Megapodagrionidae
Perilestidae Platystictidae Polythoridae Protoneuridae Pseudostigmatidae

Dragonflies

Aeshnidae Corduliidae Gomphidae Libellulidae

Text and images copyright 2014 by William A. Haber, http://efg.cs.umb.edu/
Created: 24 January 2006. Updated: 25 March 2014.