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CALOPTERYGIDE (156 pictures) Last updated in AApril 2012

EUPHAEIDAE (25 pictures of 2 species) Last updated in April 2012

CHLOROCYPHIDAE (46 pictures) Last updated in April 2012

MEGAOPODAGRIONIDAE (48 pictures) Last updated in April 2012

View the list of dragonfly taxa preserved in Siberian Zoological Museum at the Institute of Systematicsand Ecology of Animals. Novosibirsk.
(including images of Belyshev's type specimens)

A LIST OF MY PUBLICATIONS ON ODONATA
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Zaika, V.V., Kosterin, O.E. 1987. [Community structure and ethological aspects of dragonflies of Lake Manzherok (Altai)]. In: [Ecology and Geography of Arthropods of Siberia]. Nauka (Siberian Division), Novosibirsk. pp. 73-74 (in Russian)

Kosterin, O.E. 1987. Discovery of East-Asiatic dragonfly (Odonata, Libellulidae) at the Manzherock Lake (Altay). In: [Insects, Mites, and Helmints. New and little-known species of the fauna of Siberia]. Nauka (Siberian Division), Novosibirsk. pp. 57-63. (in Russian)

Kosterin, O.E. 1987. [Dragonfly community of Lake Manzherok]. In: [Problems of formation of communities terrestrial and aquatic biocenoses]. OmGPI, Omsk. pp. 76-92. (in Russian)

Kosterin O.E. 1989. To the dragonfly fauna of Altai Mts. Theses of the All- Union Scientific-Practical Conference "Problems of Ecology of Mountainous Regions" 9-13 October 1989. Dushanbe. pp. 6-10 (in Russian)

Kosterin, O.E. 1992. New distribution records of Somatochlora sahlbergi Trybom (Odonata, Corduliidae). Acta Hydroentomo- logica Latvica - Vol. 2 - P. 22-26.Russian text is available here

Zaika, V.V., O.E.Kosterin. 1992. Some interesting observations of dragonflies (Odonata) in South Tuva. Acta Hydroentomologica Latvica Vol. 2 - P. 81-84.Russian text is available here

Kosterin, O. 1996. Dragonflies (Odonata) of the city of Omsk. Acta Hydroentomologica Latvica - Vol. 3 - P. 10-21.

Kosterin, O.E. 1996. Items: Sympetrum croceolum Selye 1883; Ischnura pumilio Charpentier, 1825; Nechalenia speciosa Charpentier, 1840. Zaika, V.V., Kosterin O.E. Item: Anax parthenope Selys, 1839. In: The Red Book of Altai Republic. Animals. Novosibirsk. pp. 44-49, 54-56. (in Russian)

Kosterin, O. E. 1998. Vazhnye nakhodki v faune strekoz (Odonata) Daurskogo zapovednika i ego okrestnostei. [Important findings in the dragonfly (Odonata) fauna of the Dahurian Nature Reserve and its environs. In: Problems of Entomology in Russian]. Abstracts for XI Congress of Russian Entomological Society, Sanct-Petersburg, - Vol. 1 - P. 210-211< (in Russian). Available in Russian and English)

O.E. Kosterin. 1999. Dragonflies (Odonata) of the Daurskii State Nature Reserve and its surroundings. In: Nasekomye Daurii i sopredel'nykh territorii (Sbornik nauchnykh trudov). Vypusk II. [Insects of Dauria and Adjacent Terrtories. (Collected scientific works). Issue II]. - Novosibirsk - P. 5-40. (in Russian, Engl. res.)
English translation available here

O. E. Kosterin. 2000. Observation of an intergeneric copulation between a male Cordulia aenea (l.) and a female Epitheca bimaculata (Charp.) (Anisoptera: Corduliidae). Notulae Odonatologicae, Vol. 5, No. 5, p. 55-56.

Krasnaya Kniga Chitinskoi oblasti i Aginskogo Buryatskogo Avtonomnogo okruga. Zhivotnye [Red Book of Chita Province and Aginskii Buryat Autonomous Region. Animals.]. A. M. Vozmilov, ed. - 2000 - Poisk - Chita. Items: by O. E. Kosterin: Strelka v-chernoe, Cercion v-nigrum (Needham, 1930) - p. 140-141; Dedka Maaka, Anisogomphus maackii (Selys, 1872) [= Gomphus m-flavum (Selys, 1872)] - p. 141-142; Dozorshchik iyul'skii, Anax parthenope Selys, 1839, ssp. julius Brauer, 1866 - p. 142-143; Brodyazhka ryzhaya, Pantala flavescens (Fabricius, 1798) - p. 145-146. By O. E. Kosterin and E. A. Maksimenko: Babka Zal'berga - Somatochlora sahlbergi Trybom, 1889 - p. 143-144. (in Russian)

Kosterin, O. E., Haritonov, A. Y., Inoue, K. 2001. Dragonflies of the part of Novosibirsk Province east of the Ob', Russia. - Sympetrum Hyogo - Vol. 7/8 - p. 24-49 (in English and Japanese).

Kosterin, O. E., Zaika, V. V. 2001. Odonate fauna of the Tyva Republic, or Tuva (Central Siberia). - The Fifteenth International Symposium of Odonatology. Abstracts. Novosibirsk, Russia, July 9-19, 2001 - pp. 10-11.

Krasnaya kniga Respubliki Tyva. Zhivotnye [Red Data Book of Tyva Republic. Animals, N. I. Putuintsev, ed.]. 2002. SO RAN Press, Geo Branch, Novosibisrk, 167 p. Articles: Kosterin, O. E. Dedka shiporogii Ophiogomphus spinicornis Selys, 1878 - p. 14. (in Russian)

Kosterin, O. E. 2002. Western borders and isolates of some generally East Asian odonate species in South Siberia and their putative origin. - In: The first Symposium of the SIOROEA (S.I.O. Regional Office in East Asia. Abstracts and program. - National Science Museum, Daejeon, July 26-29 2002 - p. 12-13.

Kosterin, O. E., V. V. Zaika. 2003. Odonatological expeditions to the Tyva Republic (Tuva) 2000-2002. IDF-Report 5: 1-32.

Kosterin, O. E. 2004. Odonata of the Daurskii State Nature Reserve area, Transbaikalia, Russia. Odonatologica 33 (1): 41-71.

Kosterin, O. E. 2004. Some Odonata collected in Aldan Ulus of Sakha (Yakutia) Republic in Late June 2002. Notulae Odonatologicae 6 (3): 27-31.

Kosterin, O. E., E. I. Malikova, O. E. Haritonov. 2004. Critical species of Odonata in the Asian part of the former USSR and the Republic of Mongolia. International Journal of Odonatology 7: 341-370.

Dubatolov, V. V., R. Yu. Dudko, V. G. Mordkovich, O. B. Korsun, S. E. Chernyshev, D. V. Logunov, Yu. M. Marusik, A. A. Legalov, S. V. Vasilenko, L. G. Grishina, G. S. Zolotarenko, A. V. Barkalov, V. P. Petrova, P. Ya. Ustjuzhanin, S. Yu. Gordeev, V. K. Zihcnenko, M. G. Ponomarenko, I. I. Lyubechanskii, N. N. Vinokurov, O. E. Kosterin, E. I. Malikova, A. L. L'vovskii, E. A. Maksimenko, E. E. Malkov, A. N. Streltzov, S. G. Rudykh, D. A. Mil'ko. 2004. Biodiversity of the Sokhondo Nature Reserve. Arthropoda. Sokhondo Nature Reserve, Institute of Systematics and ecology of Animals SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Chita, 415 p. (in Russian) [a part on Odonata, pp. 81-87, by O. E. Kosterin, E. I. Malikova, E. A. Maksimenko, O. V. Korsun].

Dumont, H., A. Y. Haritonov, O. E. Kosterin, E. I. Malikova, O. G. Popova. 2005. A review of the Odonata of Kamchatka peninsula, Russia. Odonatologica 34 (2): 131-153

Kosterin, O. E. 2005. Western range limits and isolates of eastern odonate species in Siberia and their putative origins. Odonatologica 34 (3): 219-242.

Kosterin, O. E., Dubatolov V. V. 2005. A dragonfly (Odonata) collection from the Bol'shekhekhtsirskii State Nature Reserve (Khabarovskii Krai, Russia) - Fauna of Russian Far East: collected research papers. Colume 5 - Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical University, Blagoveshchensk - P. 9-14.

Kosterin O. R., Vikhrev N. E. 2006. Odonata seen during three days in a populated lowland part of Cambodia. Malangpo 21: 212-217.

Kosterin, O. E., O. V. Korsun. 2006. A collection of Odonata from the Argun' (Hailar) River basin in Transbaikalia, East Siberia, Russia. - Notulae Odonotologicae 6: 81-85.

Bernad, R., O. E. Kosterin. 2007. Odonatologiczne impresje z Riowniny Wasjuganu, zachodnia Syberia. Odonatrix 3 (2): 50-58.

Kosterin, O. E. 2007. The first record of Anax of the West Siberian Plain: A. p. parthenope Selys in Omsk (Anisoptera: Aeshnidae). Notulae Odonatologicae 6 (10): 112-115.

Malikova E. I., O. E. Kosterin, V. V. Dubatolov. 2007. A dragonfly (Odonata) collection from the Bolshekhekhtsirskii State Nature Reserve (Khabarovskii Krai, Russia). II. Seasons 2006 and 2007. In: Zhivotnyi mir Dal'nego Vostoka [Animal World of the Far East], A. I. Streltzov ed., Issue 6, p. 5-9. A PDF-file

Bernard, R., O. Kosterin. 2008. Field notes of two hunters for Nechalennia speciosa in boggy Vasyugan Plain, West Siberia. IDF-Report 12: 1-34. A PDF-file

Kosterin, O. E. 2007. Strekozy (Insecta, Odonata) Akademgorodka [Dragonflies (Insecta, Odonata) of Akademgorodok]. In: Priroda Akademgorodka: 50 let spustya [The Nature of Akademgorodok: 50 years passed], I. F. Zhimulev (ed.), SO RAN Publishing House, Novosibirsk, pp. 74-91 (In Russian).

Kosterin, O. E., N. E. Vikhrev. 2008. Odonatological field notes of two January trips to south-eastern Thailand in 2005 and 2006. Malangpo 22: 222-236.

Kosterin, O. E. 2008. Observations on the crepuscular flight in Aeshna viridis Eversman in Omsk Province, West Siberia (Anisoptera: Aeshnidae). Notulae odonotalogicae 7 (2): 18-20.

Kosterin, O. E., L. V. Sivtseva. 2009. Odonata of Yakutia (Russia) with description of Calopteryx splendens njuja ssp. nov. (Zygoptera: Calopterygidae). Odonatologica 38 (2): 93-202.

Kosterin, O. E., I. I. Lyubechanskii. 2009. Odonata collection from the Bureinskii State Nature Reserve, Khabarovskii Krai, Russia. Notulae odonatologicae 7 (3): 25-27.

Kosterin, O., N. Vikhrev. 2009. Some new provincial records of Odonata made in Thailand in 2007-2009 and a new record for Vietnam. Agrion 13 (2): 75-79, only this paper.

Kosterin, O. E. 2009. Observation of flying activity of Ophiogomphus spinicornis Selys, 1978 (Insecta, Odonata. Gomphidae) in Shiveelig-Khem River plain, Ubsunur Hollow, Southern Tuva. In: Nature of Ubsu-Nur Hollow Reserve. Transaction of "Ubsunur Hollow" State Biospheric Reserve. Issue 1, Darma Press, Krasnoyarsk, p. 226-232. (in Russian)

Bernard, B., O. E. Kosterin. 2010. Biogeographical and ecological description of Odonata of eastern Vasyugan Plain, West Siberia, Russia. Odonatologica 39: 1-28.

Kosterin, O. E., P. G. Gorbunov. 2010. Notes on the Odonata fauna of Kazakhstan, including the first record of Ischnura evansi Morton (Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae). // Notulae odonatologicae 7: 45-48.

Kosterin, O. E. 2010. Siberian taxonomical problems concerning European odonate species. 1st European Congress on Odonatology, Programme and abstracts, 2-5 July, Vaira~o - Vila do Conde, Portugal, p. 28

Kosterin, O.E., S.N. Borisov. 2010. Dragonflies (Odonata) of the Dzhungarskiy Alatau mountains, South-East Kazakhstan. Eurasian Entomological Journal 9: 299-302.

Kosterin, O.E., V.V. Zaika. 2010. Odonata of Tuva, Russia. International Journal of Odonatloogy 13: 277-328.

Kosterin, O.E. 2010. A glance at the Odonata of the Cambodian coastal regions: end of dry season in 2010. International Dragonfly Fund Report 29: 1-75.

Kosterin, O., N. Vikhrev, V. Zinchenko, A. Korshunov. 2011. More Odonata records from Thailand. Agrion 15: 12-16.

Kosterin, O.E., N.V. Skalon, T.N. Skalon. 2011. Interesting findings of Odonata in the Kuzhentskiy Alatau Mts. north-eastern foothills. Amurian Zoological Journal 3: 124-127

Kosterin, O. E. 2011. Odonata of the Cambodian coastal regions revisited: beginning of dry season 2010. International Dragonfly Fund Report 40: 1-108.

Kosterin, O.E., V.V. Zaika. 2011. Fauna of dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata) of Tuva. // Amurian Zoological Journal 3: 210-245 (in Russian)

Kosterin, O.E., J. Holden. 2011. Some photographic records of Odonata in Cambodia. International Dragonfly Fund Report 42: 1-6.

Day, L., D. Farrell, A. Guenther, M. Hamalainen, E. Klimsa, A. Korshunov, O. Kosterin, N. Makbun, A. Pelegrin, U. Roeder, R. Ruangrong, N. Vikhrev. 2012. New provincial records of Odonata from Thailand mostly based on photographs. Agrion 16: 16-24.