Dragonflies and damselflies of the Western Cape - OdonataMAP report, August 2018

Abstract

In the two-year period 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2018, citizen scientists added seven species to the list of dragonflies and damselflies in the Western Cape, bringing the total to 76 species (Figure 1). The database available for this report contained 11,267 records of dragonflies and damselflies. This includes the specimen record dating back to the start of the 20th century. Of these records 2,433 records (22%) were added between July 2016 and June 2017, and 4,202 (37%) between July 2017 and June 2018. Thus 59% of the entire Western Cape database of records of dragonflies and damselflies was contributed by citizen scientists in two years.