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.