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Circumboreal Occurring in a band encompassing the North Pole, ie in northern Europe,
North America and northern Asia; not necessarily extending inside the
Arctic Circle
Channel Islands Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark and Herm (see Figure 14)
Co County (used mainly in Ireland)
Coenagrionid Damselfly of the family Coenagrionidae (represented in this Atlas by the
genera Ceriagrion, Coenagrion, Enallagma, Erythromma, Ischnura,
Pyrrhosoma)
Connemara Area in west Co Galway, Ireland (see Figure 14)
Corduliid Member of the family Cordullidae (represented in this Atlas by the genera
Cordulia, Somatochlora, Oxygastra)
Costa Vein running along the leading edge of the wing
Cut-over bog
Damselfly
Deer forest
Diapause
Femur
Flush
Frons
FWAG
Galloway
Area of bog (currently, mainly lowland raised mires) from which the
vegetation and surface layers of peat have been removed as a result of peat
digging; long-abandoned cuttings may develop secondary vegetation which
contains some of the species found in intact bogs
Member of the suborder Zygoptera, which as adults are usually the smaller,
slender-bodied Odonata, and which hold their wings closed, or nearly
closed, over the abdomen when at rest
In Scotland, land in the uplands which is not suitable for growing crops,
usually open (without trees) and including the pool-dominated and boulderstrewn
blanket bogs of the north-west and central Highlands
An obligatory dormant or 'resting' stage in the life cycle. In Britain, usually a
means of passing the winter
Distal The part of a limb or wing toward the apex, furthest away from the centre of
the body or the point of attachment (cfproximal)
Emergence Change from aquatic larva to winged adult
Eurytopic Able to occupy a wide range of biotopes; having very broad habitat
requirements (cf stenotopic)
Eutrophication Nutrient enrichment of water, often with nitrates and phosphates from
agricultural fertilizer runoff
Fen Basic to slightly acid wetland, usually on peat
The Fens, Fenland Inland part of East Anglia, and southern Lincolnshire, much of which was
formerly fen (qv) (see Figure 14)
'Thigh', the upper (basal) of the two long sections of each leg, usually the
stouter (pl. femora)
Mineral enrichment caused by moving water; a wet area or seepage on
sloping ground
The 'forehead' or upper part of the face of an insect
Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group
Area of south-west Scotland comprising the historic counties of
Wigtownshire and Kirkcudbrightshire (= Stewartry District) (see Figure 14)
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