taxonID	type	description	language	source
03F132292C53FFA2FF78FE36FBEC5A71.taxon	description	C. pulchellum (Vander Linden, 1825) Euro-Siberia, SW-Asia; unpublished localities: 133 – 134.	en	Schneider, Thomas, Ikemeyer, Dietmar, Müller, Ole, Dumont, Henri J. (2018): Checklist of the dragonflies (Odonata) of Iran with new records and notes on distribution and taxonomy. Zootaxa 4394 (1): 1-40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.1.1
03F132292C53FFA2FF78FE36FBEC5A71.taxon	description	C. lunulatum (Charpentier, 1840) Euro-Siberia; unpublished localities: 85, 131, 133.	en	Schneider, Thomas, Ikemeyer, Dietmar, Müller, Ole, Dumont, Henri J. (2018): Checklist of the dragonflies (Odonata) of Iran with new records and notes on distribution and taxonomy. Zootaxa 4394 (1): 1-40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.1.1
03F132292C56FFA6FF78F90FFB605ADF.taxon	description	O. a. speciosum (Uhler, 1858) Oriental; unpublished locality: 77, 98; literature: Schneider & Ikemeyer (2017).	en	Schneider, Thomas, Ikemeyer, Dietmar, Müller, Ole, Dumont, Henri J. (2018): Checklist of the dragonflies (Odonata) of Iran with new records and notes on distribution and taxonomy. Zootaxa 4394 (1): 1-40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.1.1
03F132292C4BFFB1FF78F82DFB735B8B.taxon	description	Pure populations of C. s. orientalis are impressive and large animals, usually larger than all other subspecies of C. splendens. The core populations in N-Iran are found along the southern fringe of the Caspian Sea in the provinces Gilãn, Mazandarãn, and W-Golestãn. The females in this core region are androchrome. Populations on both edges of the core distribution in the NW and in the NE become smaller, with the smallest animals in Ardabil and Khorãsãn-e-Razavi. There the females are predominantly heterochrome. Hybrids between C. s. intermedia and C. s. orientalis have been observed by one of us (HD) in southern Azerbaijan on the border to Iran (Dumont 2004). Calopteryx s. intermedia is the most widespread Calopteryx in Iran reaching Darab (E-Fãrs province) in SE-Iran, but the Calopteryx genus is absent from SE-Iran. In the extreme NW edge of Iran, on the catchment of Aras River C. s. tschaldirica, a taxon of hybrid origin according to Dumont et al. (1987) is present. Hybridization of the latter with C s. intermedia is intensive in NW-Azarbãyejãn-e-Garbi. There, intermediate, sometimes fully hyaline forms can be found (Fig. 3), that was certainly at the origin or the erroneous record of C. hyalina by Rastegar et al. (2013). Epallage fatime is widespread in Iran reaching in the SE to W-Hormozgãn. The species is absent further east, including the province Sistãn-va-Baluchestãn. In Iran there are green metallic and non-metallic members of the Lestes genus. Lestes dryas was reported for Iran only recently (Kiany et al. 2016, Schneider & Ikemeyer, 2017). Lestes macrostigma was not reported from Iran so far (Fig. 4). We could find large numbers of the latter species around Lake Urmia and on other places in NW-Iran in 2017. The non-metallic L. concinnus is found in two colour-variants in SE-Iran. Recently it was shown, that L. thoracicus is a synonym of L. concinnus using material collected in SE-Iran (Dumont et al. 2017). All records of Chalcolestes viridis from Iran actually pertain to C. parvidens, as Iran lies within the geographical range of the latter and C. viridis does not cross the Caucasus range to the South and the Southeast and does not occur in Iran (Schmidt 1954, Boudot & Kalkman 2015, Kosterin & Solovyev 2017). All three Sympecma species are present in Iran. Sympecma gobica was only recently demonstrated to occur in that country (Jeziorski 2013, Ikemeyer et al. 2015), since the old record by Valle (1942) (12. VI. 1901) from Sulukly (= Siluklu = Sulugly), Kopet Dagh (37.69091 ° N, 57.27757 ° E) near Bojnurd in Iran was based only on colour pattern identification instead of structural features and is unreliable. The distribution of the latter species in E-Iran represents the western distribution limit of the species (Fig. 5). The three species can easily be separated by the male appendices (Fig. 6). The thoracic marking used in Europe for distinguishing S. fusca from S. paedisca in the field may fail in Iran, as some specimens of S. paedisca especially in E-Iran have reduced thoracic markings. Agriocnemis pygmaea is the only member of its genus in Iran and restricted to the Sistãn-va-Baluchestãn province. Our findings here are the second for the country. Nine members of Ischnura are known from Iran. Three reach their western range frontier in E-Iran (I. forcipata, I. rubilio, I. nursei, Fig. 7). Ischnura rubilio was listed in older checklists as I. aurora (Schmidt 1954, Heidari & Dumont 2002), for details see Schneider et al. (2015 a). The two sister species I. forcipata and I. intermedia are separated by the central deserts Loot and Kavir, with I. forcipata restricted from Eastern Iran to Central Asia and the Hymalaya (Dumont & Borisov 1995, Dumont & Heidari 1996, Heidari & Dumont 2002, Borisov & Haritonov 2007, Borisov 2014, Schneider & Ikemeyer 2016 b) and I. intermedia spreading from western Iran to Cyprus and in the Kopet Dagh in Turkmenistan (Dumont & Borisov 1995, Haritonov & Borisov 2007, Boudot & Kalkman, 2015, De Knijf et al. 2016).	en	Schneider, Thomas, Ikemeyer, Dietmar, Müller, Ole, Dumont, Henri J. (2018): Checklist of the dragonflies (Odonata) of Iran with new records and notes on distribution and taxonomy. Zootaxa 4394 (1): 1-40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.1.1
03F132292C4BFFB1FF78F82DFB735B8B.taxon	description	At least eight Coenagrion species occur in Iran. Coenagrion persicum is endemic to Iran (Lohmann 1993 a, Schneider et al. 2016). Three members of the genus are here reported for the first time from Iran (C. lunulatum, C. ponticum, C. pulchellum). Coenagrion lunulatum was found emerging end of May 2017 in the high Talysh Mountains near Lake Neor and flying on two ditches on the Armenian Highland in July 2017 (Fig. 12, left). Coenagrion ponticum (Fig. 12, right) has been found together with C. australocaspicum on a richly vegetated pond in the Hyrcanian Forest in the Gilãn province. C. puella occurs only in the extreme NW edge of the country (Fig. 13). Thus, three members of the puella - group (C. puella, C. ponticum, and C. australocaspicum) exist in Iran. The distribution of these members is shown (Fig. 13). They can be easily confused; therefore a comparison of the male appendices is provided (Fig. 14). Furthermore, on the Armenian Highland C. pulchellum, with very dark-black males were detected in 2017 (Fig. 15, left). Such individuals were earlier described as a subspecies named saisanicum (Belyshev 1964), which is not followed by modern taxonomy.	en	Schneider, Thomas, Ikemeyer, Dietmar, Müller, Ole, Dumont, Henri J. (2018): Checklist of the dragonflies (Odonata) of Iran with new records and notes on distribution and taxonomy. Zootaxa 4394 (1): 1-40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.1.1
03F132292C4BFFB1FF78F82DFB735B8B.taxon	description	In Iran two Platycnemidids occur. P. kervillei has its eastern range limit in W-Iran, and was only recently recorded here (Schneider & Ikemeyer 2016 a). P. dealbata is widely present in the whole country.	en	Schneider, Thomas, Ikemeyer, Dietmar, Müller, Ole, Dumont, Henri J. (2018): Checklist of the dragonflies (Odonata) of Iran with new records and notes on distribution and taxonomy. Zootaxa 4394 (1): 1-40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.1.1
03F132292C40FF88FF78F9ADFC7C5BA0.taxon	description	Four Anax species occur in Iran. Anax imperator and A. parthenope are widespread and occur in the whole country, whereas A. immaculifrons is scarce (Fig. 18). Anax ephippiger is widespread in Iran, sometimes forming swarms which follow those of Pantala flavescens (Ikemeyer et al. 2015). Brachytron pratense has been reported from the Caspian Sea region and the northwest of Iran. We did not see the species in Iran, probably due to its early flight period (April). Caliaeschna microstigma is found along brooks and smaller rivers in the mountains of N- and W-Iran reaching the Fãrs province in the south. It remains absent from the SE. The family Gomphidae comprises ten species in Iran. Anormogomphus kiritshenkoi is said to occur in Iran, but precise data are missing. The old records by Fraser (1934) are vague, mentioning just the Makran Coast and the Persian Gulf (cf. Schmidt 1954, c. f. Heidari & Dumont 2002). More recent records from rice fields in Mazandarãn province (Ghahari et al. 2009) are doubtful and rejected. However, the locations around Basra (Zobeir) in Iraq (Morton 1919, 1920) are well documented and close to the Iranian border. The reports from Alwand River in east Iraq (Sage 1960) are also only few kilometres away from the Iranian border. Thus, this species should also occur in SW Iran. As discussed previously the record of Stylurus ubadschii available for Iran is not clear (Schneider et al. 2017 a). Most of the specimens mentioned by Martin (1912) as G. davidi more probably belonged to G. kinzelbachii (for details see Schneider et al. 2017 a). In the report from Martin (1912) a female of S. flavipes is mentioned, but this was not further characterised later by Schmidt (1954). However, a male and a female not mentioned by Martin (1912) are introduced 43 years later: The male was from April 1907 and should have been present, when Martin was working on the material. Furthermore, a young female is mentioned by Schmidt (1954) captured in 1920 and attributed by Martin to G. simillimus (interestingly such an attribution was also made in the case of the typus collected by Sage, later described as G. kinzelbachi by W. Schneider). This female was labelled Perse / Java deleted. Thus, it remains unclear from where it came. Schmidt wrote the female belongs to the male and gives several details, which are not sufficient to identify this female. Furthermore, he wrote the male was checked by Asahina, who wrote back, that the male is quite similar to a male from Misis in Turkey (Schmidt, 1954). Asahina further stated that there were further four males and three females, all without abdomen. The question remains, which individual from which location was the basis of Asahina`s drawing shown in the report of Schmidt (1954). Thus doubts came up, if the figure is really based on a Persian specimen as indicated or on a specimen from Misis in Turkey. Moreover, also the possibility exists that the specimen’s label was confused, and therefore not mentioned by Martin (1912). Whatever, may be the truth, we are unable to clearly confirm if S. ubadschii was captured in Persia in 1907. However, over 100 years there were no further records of this species until in May 2017 Elias Schneider and one of the authors (TS) detected six males of S. ubadschii at the Zoreh River near the influx into the Persian Gulf (Fig. 19). Thus, the record documented here may be the first real proof that S. ubadschii is present in Iran.	en	Schneider, Thomas, Ikemeyer, Dietmar, Müller, Ole, Dumont, Henri J. (2018): Checklist of the dragonflies (Odonata) of Iran with new records and notes on distribution and taxonomy. Zootaxa 4394 (1): 1-40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.1.1
03F132292C40FF88FF78F9ADFC7C5BA0.taxon	description	Paragomphus lineatus is not rare along sparsely vegetated rivers in S-Iran (Fig. 22). The colour and size of the species is highly variable. Specimens from the province Ilãm are usually larger, more robust and often without dark markings on the abdomen. Specimens from the provinces Sistãn-va-Baluchestãn, and Hormozgãn, are tinier and have a more vivid colouration with well-defined black markings on the abdomen. At least three Cordulegaster taxa are found in Iran. Cordulegaster vanbrinkae is very dark and the darkest member of the boltonii - group. However, yellow-marked individuals occur in the Golestãn province. This species occurs in the Hyrcanian forest on the northern slopes of the Alborz Mountains in the south Caspian Sea region. Cordulegaster nobilis are impressive insects with very large and yellow individuals found mainly in the Zagros Mountains. Cordulegaster coronata (Fig. 23, left) is smaller and occurs in the NE, near the Afghan border (Schneider & Ikemeyer 2017). On the basis of exuviae we previously assigned the population from Azaneh to C. i. nobilis (Seidenbusch et al. 2015, Ikemeyer et al. 2015). However, already in this description we noticed that the exuviae were very near if not identical to Cordulegaster coronata from Middle Asia (Seidenbusch et al. 2015). To clarify this we went again to this location one year later in June, when we detected the imagines. The adults fit phenotypically very well to the original description by Morton (1915 – 1916). Meanwhile molecular data revealed that they are identical with middle Asian Cordulegaster coronata (manuscript in preparation).	en	Schneider, Thomas, Ikemeyer, Dietmar, Müller, Ole, Dumont, Henri J. (2018): Checklist of the dragonflies (Odonata) of Iran with new records and notes on distribution and taxonomy. Zootaxa 4394 (1): 1-40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.1.1
03F132292C40FF88FF78F9ADFC7C5BA0.taxon	description	Two members of Brachythemis are found in Iran (Fig. 25). Brachytehmis fuscopalliata is present at large lowland rivers in SW-Iran. Brachythemis contaminata has its western distribution limit in SE-Iran. With 11 taxa, Orthetrum is the most speciose genus in Iran. Orthetrum ransonnetii and O. luzonicum occur in E-Iran. Our records for the latter are the second for Iran. The reports of O. luzonicum from Mazandarãn (Ghahari et al. 2009) are definitively wrong as these locations are completely out of its known range. Interesting is the occurrence of O. a. albistylum and the subspecies O. a. speciosum in Iran (Figs. 26, 27). The latter is found only in the Caspian Sea region, whereas the nominate form is present in NW- and W-Iran. The taxonomic status of the subspecies O. a. speciosum is not clear. However, our specimens from the Caspian Sea fit well with the pictures shown in the Dragonflies of the Japanese Archipelago (Okudaira et al. 2001). Until now it is unclear how far west this eastern Palaearctic taxa occurs, however, it is meanwhile found abundant in south-eastern Russia (Malikova 1997, Yakubovich 2010, 2013). Thus, the Caspian Sea region may harbour its western most outposts. Further molecular work including material from the Far East is needed to clarify the taxonomic value of this subspecies, which is mainly a larger form of the nominate species.	en	Schneider, Thomas, Ikemeyer, Dietmar, Müller, Ole, Dumont, Henri J. (2018): Checklist of the dragonflies (Odonata) of Iran with new records and notes on distribution and taxonomy. Zootaxa 4394 (1): 1-40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.1.1
03F132292C40FF88FF78F9ADFC7C5BA0.taxon	description	Crocothemis erythraea and C. servilia are both present in Iran (Fig. 31). Curiously enough, C. erythraea females with blue to grey pruinose thorax and abdomen and yellow markings on the side of the abdomen reminiscent of a small Libellula depressa male can be found in NW-Iran near the Aras River. Pantala flavescens is widespread and often seen in big swarms (Ikemeyer et al. 2015). Diplacodes lefebvrii is present in the whole country but more frequent in the South. Selysiothemis nigra is widespread, and can be observed at high temperatures (> 55 ° C), sometimes in high density (n> 1000), for example on the river Karkeh in SW Iran.	en	Schneider, Thomas, Ikemeyer, Dietmar, Müller, Ole, Dumont, Henri J. (2018): Checklist of the dragonflies (Odonata) of Iran with new records and notes on distribution and taxonomy. Zootaxa 4394 (1): 1-40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.1.1
