Odonate Fauna of Val Grande National Park with 25 Species and 188 Records

188 records of dragonflies and damselflies document the first checklist for Val Grande National Park in Italy. The data, compiled by Lucia Pompilio and Andrea Mosini in 2021, includes 1173 individual observations collected between 2014 and 2019. This study increased known species in the area from 6 to 25, including boreo-alpine and endemic populations.

Use Cases

• Assessing species richness and distribution based on the 188 records and 25 species list.
• Studying the conservation status of specific taxa like Somatochlora alpestris and Cordulegaster bidentata mentioned in the description.
• Analyzing the role of geographic position and orography on Odonate diversity as discussed in the study.
• Using the checklist to inform protected area management and expansion plans as proposed by the authors.

Strengths

• Provides 188 records (1173 individuals) for a previously understudied area, with 137 being recent and unpublished.
• Documents 25 Odonate species, representing 26% of the Italian fauna and identifying 14 as breeding.
• Includes temporal coverage from an intensive 2016 survey and extensive 2014-2019 period.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Digitized treatments from the journal article 'Fragmenta entomologica' by Pompilio and Mosini (2021).

Collection Method

Field surveys conducted intensively in summer 2016 and extensively from 2014-2019, combined with literature review.

Time Range

2014-2019

Geography

Val Grande National Park, Piedmont, province of Verbano Cusio Ossola, Italy