Dragonflies and Damselflies of Greenville County, South Carolina

This is the species list for the county, as compiled and posted at Odonata Central (Abbott 2008). I have collected or photographed the species with active links; click on the link to see the collection information and photographs of the voucher specimen. The specimens/photographs that I entered as the first county record for the species are also highlighted (* = county record).

(Abbott, J. C. 2008. Odonata Central: An online resource for the Odonata of North America. Austin, TX. Available at http://www.odonatacentral.org. (Accessed 8 April, 2008).

• C = captured and specimen entered in the Furman University Zoological Collection
• P = photographed in the field, or captured, photographed, and released
• O = unambiguously observed and identified

ZYGOPTERA

Calopterygidae

• Calopteryx dimidiata
• Calopteryx maculata (C)
• Hetaerina titia

Lestidae

• Archilestes grandis* (P)
• Lestes disjunctus australis (C)
• Lestes inaequalis
• Lestes rectangularis
• Lestes vidua
• Lestes vigilax (C)

• Amphiagrion sacium (C)
• Argia apicalis
• Argia bipunctulata
• Argia fumipennis (C)
• Argia moesta* (C)
• Argia sedula
• Argia tibialis
• Chromagrion conditum (C)
• Enallagma aspersum (C)
• Enallagma basidens
• Enallagma civile (C)
• Enallagma divagans (C)
• Enallagma doubledayi
• Enallagma geminatum* (C)
• Enallagma signatum (C)
• Enallagma traviatum (C)
• Enallagma vesperum * (C)
• Enallagma weewa
• Ischnura hastata (C)
• Ischnura posita (C)
• Ischnura prognata
• Ischnura ramburii* (C)
• Ischnura verticalis
• Nehalenna irene

ANISOPTERA

Petaluridae

• Tachopteryx thoreyi (C)

Aeshnidae

• Aeshna umbrosa (C)
• Anax junius (C)
• Anax longipes (C)
• Basiaeschna janata* (C)
• Boyeria vinosa (C)
• Epiaeschna heros (C)
• Gomphaeschna furcillata* (C)

Gomphidae

• Dromogomphus spinosus (C)
• Erpetogomphus designatus (C)
• Gomphus dilatatus* (C)
• Gomphus exilis (C)
• Gomphus lividus (C)
• Gomphus parvidens* (C)
• Gomphus rogersi* (C)
• Hagenius brevistylus (C)
• Lanthus vernalis* (C)
• Progomphus obscurus (C)
• Stylurus laurae
• Stylurus plagiatus
• Stylurus scudderi
• Stylurus spiniceps
• Stylurus townesi

Cordulegastridae

• Cordulegaster bilineata (C)
• Cordulegaster erronea (C)
• Cordulegaster maculata (P)

Macromiidae

• Didymops transversa (C)
• Macromia illinoiensis

Corduliidae

• Epitheca (Epicordulia) princeps* (C)
• Epitheca (Tetragoneuria) cynosura* (C)
• Helocordulia selysii* (P)
• Somatochlora linearis
• Somatochlora tenebrosa

• Celithemis elisa (C)
• Celithemis eponina* (C)
• Celithemis fasciata (C)
• Celithemis verna* (C)
• Erythemis simplicicollis (C)
• Erythrodiplax minuscula (C)
• Ladona deplanata* (C)
• Libellula auripennis (C)
• Libellula axilena* (C)
• Libellula cyanea (C)
• Libellula flavida (C)
• Libellula incesta (C)
• Libellula luctuosa (C)
• Libellula pulchella (C)
• Libellula semifasciata (C)
• Libellula vibrans (P)
• Pachydiplax longipennis (C)
• Pantala flavescens
• Pantala hymenaea (C)
• Perithemis tenera (C)
• Plathemis lydia (C)
• Sympetrum ambiguum (C)
• Sympetrum rubicundulum
• Sympetrum vicinum* (C)
• Tramea carolina (C)
• Tramea lacerata (C)