1st European Congress on Odonatology Programme and abstracts

Review of Macedonian Odonata
Despina Kitanova 1 and Miloš Jović 2
1 Macedonian Ecological Society, Blvd. Kuznam Josifovski Pitu, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia
2 Natural History Museum, Njegoševa 51, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
An annotated checklist of the Macedonian dragonfly fauna is presented in the paper. Checklist
includes 61 species. Presence of Lestes sponsa (Hansemann, 1823) in Macedonia is recorded for the
first time. Besides all available literature data, this review includes unpublished records of Odonata
mainly from the mountainous areas of the country.
Twelve species are of international importance (based on their presence in EU Habitats Directive
Appendices and/or the status of threat presented in the <strong>European</strong> Red List). Status of these species in
Macedonia is briefly discussed according to present knowledge of their distribution and factors that
represent threat to existence of the known recent populations.
This review also includes a list of species which were not recorded and expected to be found on the
territory of Macedonia.
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