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Odonata

 

Coordination and project directors

Christian Monnerat, christian.monnerat[at]unine.ch , Yves Gonseth (CSCF), yves.gonseth[at]unine.ch

with the invaluable assistance from the representatives of the Odonatologues group of Switzerland:  Rene Hoess (Bern, BE), Christian Keim (Martigny, VS), Tiziano Maddalena (Gordevio, TI), Alain Maibach (Oron-la-Ville, VD), Claude Meier (Zurich, ZH), Peter Weidmann (Coire, GR.) and Hansruedi Wildermuth (Rüti, ZH).

Operational phase: 1999 - 2002


Summary
The project Odonata 2000 made it possible to gather more than 40' 000 pieces of new data by re-sampling of known sites and prospective sampling of new sites.  No less than 97' 000 pieces of data were used to carry out the analysis of the RL status of species by adopting the new criteria suggested by the UICN (version 2001).  The results obtained were published by the OFEFP in December 2002 in the notes on the environment under the title "Red List of threatened dragonflies of Switzerland".  This document replaces the RL published by Maibach & Meier (in Duelli 1994).

Available documents

The Red list of Dragonflies of Switzerland can be ordered free at http://www.bafu.admin.ch/publikationen/index.html.  It is also available as a pdf file in three languages [F] [D] [I] .

Protection cards of particularly threatened or emblematic species are available in supplement to this new red list.  They provide practical information on their ecology and on the measures envisaged to ensure the conservation of their habitat.

[F] [D] Calopteryx, all subspecies of the genera
[F] [D] Ceriagrion tenellum (De Villers, 1789)
[F] [D] Coenagrion mercuriale (Charpentier, 1840)
[F] [D] Epitheca bimaculata (Charpentier, 1825)
[F] [D] Gomphus simillimus Sélys, 1840
[F] [D] Lestes dryas Kirky, 1890
[F] [D] Lestes virens vestalis Rambur, 1842
[F] [D] Leucorrhinia albifrons (Burmeister, 1839)
[F] [D] Leucorrhinia caudalis (Charpentier, 1840)
[F] [D] Leucorrhinia pectoralis (Charpentier, 1825)
[F] [D] Ophiogomphus cecilia (Fourcroy, 1758)
[F] [D] Sympecma paedisca Brauer, 1877
[F] [D] Sympetrum flaveolum (Linnaeus, 1758)

New atlas of distribution

The great amount of unpublished chorological and ecological data gathered within the framework of this project has justified the re-publication of the Atlas of distribution of Dragonflies of Switzerland, which the first edition was published in 1987.This work, illustrated by new plates by the famous naturalist painter Paul-André Robert, was published in 2005 in the Fauna Helvetica series.

 

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