Dragonflies (Insecta: Odonata) of the Cerová vrchovina Uplands in Slovakia

This work provides data of the systematic research on the dragonflies in the Cerová vrchovina Uplands in the southern Slovakia, realized in 2012-2014 investigating a total of 30 sites (8 habitat types). During investigation, 39 dragonfly species belonging to 9 families were confirmed. For fifteen of these recorded species larval development has been proved: Aeshna cyanea, Aeshna mixta, Anax imperator, Calopteryx virgo, Chalcolestes viridis, Coenagrion ornatum, Cordulegaster bidentata, Enallagma cyathigerum, Erythromma viridulum, Ischnura elegans, Orthetrum albistylum, O. brunneum, Platycnemis pennipes, Sympetrum sanguineum and S. vulgatum. In the area, all dragonfly species which are evaluated and listed in the Carpathian Red List of Dragonflies have been found (35 of them Least Concern, Near Threatened Coenagrion ornatum and Sympetrum pedemontanum and Data Deficient Coenagrion scitulum and Somatochlora flavomaculata). The following species significant from faunistic point of view were recorded for the first time in the Cerová vrchovina Uplands: Aeshna mixta, Coenagrion ornatum, C. scitulum, Cordulegaster bidentata, Cordulia aenea, Crocothemis erythraea Erythromma viridulum, Orthetrum albistylum, O. coerulescens, Somatochlora flavomaculata, S. metallica, Sympecma fusca, Sympetrum fonscolombii, S. pedemontanum and S. striolatum. Next nine faunistically significant dragonfly species have national importance: Anax imperator, Coenagrion scitulum, Cordulegaster bidentata, Onychogomphus forcipatus, Orthetrum coerulesces, Somatochlora flavomaculata, S. metallica, Sympecma fusca, Sympetrum pedemontanum; the species of Coenagrion ornatum is listed in Annex II (EU Habitat Directive) as species of Community importance.