[Odonata-l] lists of Odonata of special concern

[rodolfo novelo gutiérrez]

Dear Dennis:
 
In recent book dedicated to Prof. B. Kiauta, Enrique Gonzalez and I
contributed with  the chapter 'Odonata of Mexico revisited'. We commented on
some species closely related with the mountain cloud forest as the most
endangered because of the highly fragmentary natural distribution of this
bioma in Mexico. Due to the anthropogenic activities (agriculture, induced
fires, overexplotation of freshwater sources, and others), this bioma has
been reduced and eventually confined to abrupt ravines which have been
serving as a refugees for the fauna associated with this ecosystem. Thus, we
considered species such as Amphipteryx longicaudata, Hetarerina rudis,
Lestes alfonsoi, Palaemnema paulicaxa, Erpetogomphus erici, E. agkistrodon,
Cordulegaster godmani, Brechmorhoga latialata, and Macrothemis ultima as
endangered for their low populations and/or restricted distribution.
Likewise, Heteragrion azulum and Epigomphus donnellyi are apparently
restricted to the rain forest at Los Tuxtlas region, which has been constant
and heavily disturbed.
 
Rodolfo Novelo
 

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De: odonata-l-bounces at listhost.ups.edu
[mailto:odonata-l-bounces at listhost.ups.edu] En nombre de Dennis Paulson
Enviado el: Domingo, 25 de Febrero de 2007 04:05 p.m.
Para: Odonata-l
Asunto: [Odonata-l] lists of Odonata of special concern


Hello, all. 

The IUCN has launched a project to assess the conservation status of 1500
species of Odonata (just over a fourth of the species!) randomly chosen from
the world list to go along with the assessments that have already been done
for many species known to be of conservation concern.

I am involved in doing these assessments for 213 species of North and Middle
America (Canada to Panama and the West Indies), and I would like to include
information on species that are of local conservation concern even if not so
in their entire range. So one of the forms of data I would like to have
available is the status of odonate species in any of the Canadian provinces
or US states in which such lists of species have been generated. I know of
some of them but certainly not all, and if any of them are published on a
website, for example, I would much appreciate knowing the address of that
website. Or if there is a regional list being kept by any government agency
or NGO, I would appreciate knowing about that. I have not heard of any such
lists available for any region south of the US border, but if there are for
any Latin American or West Indian countries, I would very much like to know
about those as well.

Many thanks.

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Dennis Paulson
1724 NE 98 St.
Seattle, WA 98115
206-528-1382
dennispaulson at comcast.net



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