As I try to get everything up and running, I will attempt to publish species/abundance lists for each county. This is an example page as I get more of the scripts working and access to more databases. These numbers and abundances are from the Ohio Odonata Society Database (current up to 2017), but I hope to get more compiled databases together.
If you would like information for a different county up sooner rather than later, just email me and I will put that county higher up on the to-do list.
Franklin County
Total number of species: 105
Total abundance of specimens in database: 1487
Species List known from county:
Species | # Records | Recent |
Dragonhunter | 4 | 2015 |
Rusty Snaketail | 13 | 1994 |
Green-faced Clubtail | 1 | 1903 |
Midland Clubtail | 19 | 1995 |
Handsome Clubtail | 21 | 2011 |
Cobra Clubtail | 3 | 1900 |
Skillet Clubtail | 1 | 1994 |
Splendid Clubtail | 4 | 1939 |
Russet-tipped Clubtail | 2 | 2016 |
Arrow Clubtail | 1 | 2008 |
Ashy Clubtail | 5 | 1974 |
Pronghorn Clubtail | 22 | 1994 |
Lancet Clubtail | 1 | 1900 |
Dusky Clubtail | 2 | 1947 |
Rapids Clubtail | 2 | 1899 |
Unicorn Clubtail | 2 | 2017 |
Black-shouldered Spinyleg | 4 | 2016 |
Eastern Least Clubtail | 1 | 1937 |
Taper-tailed Darner | 1 | 1896 |
Springtime Darner | 8 | 1993 |
Fawn Darner | 29 | 2016 |
Comet Darner | 1 | 2006 |
Common Green Darner | 44 | 2017 |
Cyrano Darner | 5 | 2015 |
Swamp Darner | 19 | 2017 |
Spatterdock Darner | 3 | 1987 |
Shadow Darner | 18 | 2017 |
Lance-tipped Darner | 1 | 1951 |
Green-striped Darner | 1 | 1939 |
Arrowhead Spiketail | 2 | 2017 |
Swift River Cruiser | 11 | 2006 |
Allegheny River Cruiser | 2 | 1993 |
Royal River Cruiser | 10 | 2016 |
Gilded River Cruiser | 2 | 2006 |
Stream Cruiser | 1 | 1896 |
Smoky Shadowdragon | 1 | 1991 |
Prince Baskettail | 16 | 2017 |
Common Baskettail | 4 | 1992 |
Mocha Emerald | 1 | 1975 |
Eastern Amberwing | 28 | 2017 |
Halloween Pennant | 9 | 2017 |
Calico Pennant | 3 | 2017 |
Banded Pennant | 1 | 1937 |
Widow Skimmer | 46 | 2017 |
Spangled Skimmer | 1 | 2017 |
Painted Skimmer | 8 | 2013 |
Twelve-spotted Skimmer | 23 | 2017 |
Four-spotted Skimmer | 1 | 1895 |
Slaty Skimmer | 3 | 2017 |
Great Blue Skimmer | 1 | 1896 |
Common Whitetail | 49 | 2017 |
Variegated Meadowhawk | 1 | 1937 |
Blue-faced Meadowhawk | 11 | 2017 |
White-faced Meadowhawk | 1 | 1931 |
Ruby Meadowhawk | 21 | 1992 |
Band-winged Meadowhawk | 1 | 1899 |
Autumn Meadowhawk | 36 | 2017 |
Saffron-winged Meadowhawk | 1 | 1895 |
Dot-tailed Whiteface | 17 | 1936 |
Blue Dasher | 66 | 2017 |
Eastern Pondhawk | 80 | 2017 |
Spot-winged Glider | 5 | 2016 |
Wandering Glider | 8 | 2017 |
Black Saddlebags | 25 | 2017 |
Red Saddlebags | 3 | 2017 |
Carolina Saddlebags | 6 | 1936 |
River Jewelwing | 1 | 1895 |
Ebony Jewelwing | 51 | 2017 |
American Rubyspot | 39 | 2017 |
Great Spreadwing | 15 | 2017 |
Amber-winged Spreadwing | 5 | 1989 |
Spotted Spreadwing | 3 | 2017 |
Lyre-tipped Spreadwing | 11 | 2010 |
Sweetflag Spreadwing | 3 | 1936 |
Northern Spreadwing | 1 | 2009 |
Southern Spreadwing | 8 | 1987 |
Slender Spreadwing | 25 | 2017 |
Emerald Spreadwing | 2 | 1936 |
Blue-fronted Dancer | 40 | 2017 |
Violet Dancer | 39 | 2017 |
Powdered Dancer | 66 | 2017 |
Blue-ringed Dancer | 28 | 2017 |
Blue-tipped Dancer | 29 | 2011 |
Dusky Dancer | 13 | 2017 |
Eastern Red Damsel | 5 | 1939 |
Sedge Sprite | 2 | 1954 |
Aurora Damsel | 3 | 1935 |
Turquoise Bluet | 3 | 2016 |
Hagen’s Bluet | 1 | 1937 |
Boreal Bluet | 2 | 1930 |
Skimming Bluet | 8 | 2017 |
Orange Bluet | 11 | 2017 |
Vesper Bluet | 3 | 2017 |
Marsh Bluet | 2 | 1947 |
Stream Bluet | 82 | 2017 |
Rainbow Bluet | 14 | 1939 |
Tule Bluet | 1 | 1896 |
Atlantic Bluet | 1 | 1897 |
Familiar Bluet | 26 | 2017 |
Double-striped Bluet | 9 | 2017 |
Azure Bluet | 15 | 2017 |
Westfall’s Slender Bluet | 1 | 2017 |
Fragile Forktail | 41 | 2017 |
Eastern Forktail | 126 | 2017 |
Citrine Forktail | 9 | 2014 |
Species found in surrounding counties, but yet to be reported: (possible county records to watch for)
Species | County | Recent |
Gray Petaltail | Fairfield | 1996 |
Gray Petaltail | Licking | 2002 |
Common Sanddragon | Fairfield | 2012 |
Plains Clubtail | Pickaway | 1996 |
Lilypad Clubtail | Fairfield | 2017 |
Lilypad Clubtail | Licking | 1899 |
Laura’s Clubtail | Fairfield | 2014 |
Flag-tailed Spinyleg | Union | 1993 |
Flag-tailed Spinyleg | Madison | 2017 |
Flag-tailed Spinyleg | Delaware | 2012 |
Northern Pygmy Clubtail | Licking | 1986 |
Black-tipped Darner | Licking | 1996 |
Delta-spotted Spiketail | Licking | 1937 |
Brown Spiketail | Licking | 1931 |
Tiger Spiketail | Fairfield | 2014 |
Tiger Spiketail | Licking | 2004 |
Twin-spotted Spiketail | Fairfield | 2016 |
Twin-spotted Spiketail | Licking | 1998 |
Wabash River Cruiser | Delaware | 2011 |
Clamp-tipped Emerald | Fairfield | 1996 |
Clamp-tipped Emerald | Licking | 2002 |
Blue Corporal | Fairfield | 2014 |
Blue Corporal | Madison | 2015 |
Smoky Rubyspot | Fairfield | 1898 |
Elegant Spreadwing | Fairfield | 1986 |
Elegant Spreadwing | Licking | 1992 |
Swamp Spreadwing | Licking | 1998 |
Swamp Spreadwing | Fairfield | 1998 |
Swamp Spreadwing | Madison | 2017 |
Sphagnum Sprite | Licking | 1935 |