page_title: List of Odonata species of Great Britain
section_title: Family Calopterygidae (Demoiselles)
hierarchical_section_title: List of Odonata species of Great Britain / The list / Suborder Zygoptera (Damselflies) / Family Calopterygidae (Demoiselles)
context_page_description: There are 57 recorded species of Odonata in Britain, made up of 21 damselflies and 36 dragonflies. Of these, 42 species are resident breeders, and the remainder are either extinct species, or vagrants - in respect of the latter, this list follows the decisions of the Odonata Records Committee.
  Some of these rare species have not been seen since the 19th Century; however, the British Odonata list is also currently undergoing a period of unprecedented change, as new species are being discovered for the first time, some going on to become breeding species.
  This list is based on the following principal references:
  Merritt, R., N. W. Moore and B. C. Eversham, Atlas of the dragonflies of Britain and Ireland, HMSO
  Parr, A. J., Dragonfly movement and migration in Britain and Ireland, Journal of the British Dragonfly Society Vol. 12 No. 2 pp. 33–50
  Parr, Adrian, An Annotated List of the Odonata of Britain and Ireland, Atropos No. 11 pp. 10–20
caption: Beautiful Demoiselle
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