Online-only Table 2.
The primary references from which the data were collected. Most of these are field guides. Below is a list of resources that the database currently is based on.
| Authors (year) | Title | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Theischinger and Hawking (2006) | Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia | 47 |
| Ozono and Futahashi (2012) | Dragonflies of Japan | 48 |
| Dijkstra and Lewington (2006) | Field Guide to the Dragonflies of Britain and Europe | 49 |
| Paulson (2009) | Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West | 50 |
| Samways (2008) | Dragonflies and Damselflies of South Africa | 51 |
| Tarboton and Tarboton (2002) | A fieldguide to the Dragonflies of South Africa | 52 |
| Heckman (2006) | Encyclopedia of South American Aquatic Insects: Odonata-Anisoptera | 53 |
| Paulson (2012) | Dragonflies and Damselflies of the East. | 54 |
| Bun et al. (2010) | A Photographic Guide to the Dragonflies of Singapore | 55 |
| Subramanian (2005) | Dragonflies and Damselflies of Peninsular India: A Field Guide | 56 |
| Hämäläinen and Pinratana (1999) | Atlas of the Dragonflies of Thailand Distribution Maps by Provinces | 57 |
| Herrara (2006) | Dragonflies and damselflies of Middle America and the Caribbean | 58 |
| Garrison et al. (2006) | Dragonfly Genera of the New World: An Illustrated and Annotated Key to the Anisoptera | 59 |
| Nair (2011) | Dragonflies and Damselflies of Orissa and Eastern India | 60 |
| Tarboton and Tarboton (2005) | A fieldguide to the Damselflies of South Africa | 61 |
| Sugimura et al. (2001) | Dragonflies of the Japanese Archipelago in Color | 62 |
| Lencioni (2006) | Damselflies of Brazil: An illustrated identification guide. Volumes 1 and 2. | 63 |
| Suhling and Martens (2007) | Dragonflies and Damselflies of Namibia | 64 |
| Askew (1988) | The Dragonflies of Europe | 65 |
| Dunkle (2000) | Dragonflies through Binoculars: A Field Guide to Dragonflies of North America | 66 |
| Manolis (2003) | Dragonflies and Damselflies of California | 67 |
| Abbott (2011) | Damselflies of Texas: A Field Guide | 68 |
| Dijkstra and Clausnitzer (2014) | The Dragonflies and Dameselflies of Eastern Africa: Handbook for All Odonata from Sudan to Zimbabwe | 69 |
| Tze-wai et al. (2011) | The Dragonflies of Hong Kong | 70 |
| Michalski (2015) | The Dragonflies and Damselflies of Trinidad and Tobago | 71 |
| Kompier (2015) | A Guide to the Dragonflies and Damselflies of the Serra dos Orgaos South-eastern Brazil | 72 |
| Marinov and Waqa-Sakiti (2013) | An Illustrated Guide to Dragonflies of Viti Levu Fiji | 73 |
| Polhemus and Asquith (1996) | Hawaiian Damselflies: A Field Identification Guide | 74 |
| Biggs (2000) | Common Dragonflies of California | 75 |
| Garrison et al. (2010) | Damselfly Genera of the New World: An Illustrated and Annotated Key to the Zygoptera | 76 |