page_title: List of Odonata of Nepal
section_title: Family Libellulidae
hierarchical_section_title: List of Odonata of Nepal / Suborder Anisoptera – dragonflies / Family Libellulidae
caption_attribution_description: English: Female Neurothemis fulvia aka the Fulvous Forest Skimmer taken at Bhorletar, Lamjung
context_page_description: The following is a list of Odonata of Nepal. One hundred and eighty-five species from seventeen families are listed.
  This list is primarily based on Graham Vick's 1989 list with some recent additions and a modernized classification.
context_section_description: Acisoma panorpoides panorpoides - trumpet-tail
  Aethriamanta brevipennis - scarlet marsh hawk
  Brachythemis contaminata - ditch jewel
  Brachydiplax sobrina - little blue marsh hawk
  Barchydiplax chalybea - rufous-backed marsh hawk
  Bradinophyga geminata - granite ghost
  Cratilla lineata - emerald-banded skimmer
  Cratilla metallica
  Crocothemis erythaea - broad skimmer
  Crocothemis servilia - scarlet skimmer
  Diplacodes lefebvreii
  Diplacodes nebulosa - black-tipped ground skimmer
  Diplacodes trivialis - blue ground skimmer
  Libellula quadrimaculata
  Lyriothemis bivittata
  Nannophya pygmaea
  Neurothemis fulvia - fulvous forest skimmer
  Neurothemis intermedia - paddyfield parasol
  Neurothemis tullia tullia - pied paddy skimmer
  Orthetrum glaucum- blue marsh hawk
  Orthetrum japonicum internum
  Orthetrum luzonicum - tri-coloured marsh hawk
  Orthetrum pruinosum neglectum - crimson-tailed marsh hawk
  Orthetrum coerulescens anceps - keeled skimmer
  Orthetrum sabina - green marsh hawk
  Orthetrum taeniolatum - small skimmer
  Orthetrum triangulare triangulare - blue-tailed forest hawk
  Orthetrum lineostigma
  Onychothemis testaceum testaceum
  Palpopleura sexmaculata sexmaculata - blue-tailed yellow skimmer
  Pantala flavescens - wandering glider
  Potamarcha congenera - yellow-tailed ashy skimmer
  Pseudotramea prateri
  Rhodothemis rufa - rufous marsh glider
  Rhyothemis plutonia - greater blue-wing
  Rhyothemis triangularis - lesser blue-wing
  Rhyothemis variegata variegata - common picturewing
  Selysiothemis nigra
  Sympetrum commixtum
  Sympetrum decoloratum
  Sympetrum fonscolombei
  Sympetrum haematoneura
  Sympetrum hypomelas
  Sympetrum orientale
  Tholymis tillarga
  Tramea basilaris burmeisteri - red marsh trotter
  Tramea limbata simiata - black marsh trotter
  Tramea virginia
  Trithemis aurora - crimson marsh glider
  Trithemis festiva - black stream glider
  Trithemis pallidinervis - long-legged marsh glider
  Urothemis signata signata - greater crimson glider
  Zygonyx iris - emerald cascader
caption: Female Neurothemis fulvia (fulvous forest skimmer)
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