| Range Description: | Pantala flavescens is a circumtropical species known from all continents except Antarctica. It is an obligate migrant, its migrations linked to the monsoon front, and has been recorded from all Afrotropical countries, including Madagascar and the nearby islands, apart from Burundi where it probably also occurs. Farther north, small numbers of migrants have been found in all other African countries, except Libya and Western Sahara which is most likely due to inadequate field work. Out of Africa, this species is commonly found in the Arabian Peninsula and all the Middle East and reaches southern Europe occasionally (records from Bulgaria, Montenegro, Rhodes Island, mainland Greece at the Turkish border, and European Turkey, north Caucasus area). In Asia, this species is known to occur north to central Asia, southern Siberia, Kamchatka and Japan, and south to Australia. In the Americas, it is widespread throughout the Neotropics, including the islands of the Caribbean and Galapagos, and throughout the United States and southern Canada. It is rarely recorded in the Pacific Northwest and has not been found in Labrador, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Alaska, or the more northerly Canadian territories. The northernmost records are probably vagrants. It occurs in eight provinces in Canada, 46 states in the United States of America, and 30 states in Mexico. In addition, it has been found on most Pacific islands, including the Hawaiian Islands, and probably breeds, if only as a migrant, in the great majority of localities where it has been recorded. It is the only Odonata species that occurs on the Easter Island. |
| Countries occurrence: | Native: American Samoa (American Samoa); Angola (Angola, Cabinda); Argentina; Aruba; Australia (New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia); Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; Benin; Bhutan; Bolivia, Plurinational States of; Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba; Botswana; Brazil; Brunei Darussalam; Burkina Faso; Cambodia; Cameroon; Canada (Alberta - Vagrant, Manitoba - Vagrant, New Brunswick, Newfoundland I - Vagrant, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward I., Québec); Cayman Islands; Central African Republic; Chile; China; Colombia; Comoros; Congo; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Cook Islands (Cook Is.); Costa Rica; Côte d'Ivoire; Cuba; Curaçao; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Ecuador (Ecuador (mainland), Galápagos); El Salvador; Equatorial Guinea (Bioko, Equatorial Guinea (mainland)); Ethiopia; Fiji; French Guiana; French Polynesia; Gabon; Gambia; Ghana; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Guam; Guatemala; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Guyana; Haiti; Honduras; Hong Kong; India; Indonesia (Jawa, Sumatera); Jamaica; Kenya; Kiribati; Korea, Democratic People's Republic of; Korea, Republic of; Liberia; Madagascar; Malawi; Malaysia; Marshall Islands; Martinique; Mauritius (Mauritius (main island), Rodrigues); Mayotte; Mexico (Aguascalientes, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Colima, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, México Distrito Federal, México State, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatán); Micronesia, Federated States of ; Mozambique; Myanmar; Namibia (Caprivi Strip, Namibia (main part)); Nauru; New Caledonia; Nicaragua; Nigeria; Niue; Norfolk Island; Northern Mariana Islands; Palau; Panama; Papua New Guinea (Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea (main island group)); Paraguay; Peru; Philippines; Puerto Rico (Navassa I., Puerto Rico (main island)); Réunion; Rwanda; Saint Barthélemy; Saint Lucia; Saint Martin (French part); Saint Pierre and Miquelon; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Samoa; Sao Tomé and Principe (Principe, Sâo Tomé); Senegal; Seychelles (Aldabra, Seychelles (main island group)); Sierra Leone; Singapore; Solomon Islands; South Africa (Eastern Cape Province, Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo Province, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape Province, North-West Province, Western Cape); South Sudan; Sri Lanka; Suriname; Swaziland; Taiwan, Province of China; Tanzania, United Republic of; Thailand; Togo; Tonga; Trinidad and Tobago; Uganda; United States (Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaiian Is., Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin); Uruguay; Vanuatu; Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of (Venezuela (mainland)); Viet Nam; Virgin Islands, U.S.; Wallis and Futuna; Zambia; Zimbabwe Vagrant: Afghanistan; Algeria; Armenia (Armenia); Azerbaijan; Cape Verde; Chad; Cyprus; Egypt (Egypt (African part), Sinai); Georgia (Abkhaziya); Greece (East Aegean Is., Greece (mainland)); Iran, Islamic Republic of; Iraq; Israel; Japan; Jordan; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Lebanon; Mali; Mauritania; Montenegro; Morocco; Nepal; Niger; Oman; Pakistan; Qatar; Russian Federation (Central Asian Russia, Central European Russia, Chita, Dagestan - Native, European Russia, Kabardino-Balkariya, Kamchatka, Kuril Is., Primoryi, Sakhalin); Saudi Arabia; Somalia; Sudan; Syrian Arab Republic; Tajikistan; Tunisia; Turkey (Turkey-in-Asia, Turkey-in-Europe); Turkmenistan; United Arab Emirates; Uzbekistan; Yemen (North Yemen, Socotra, South Yemen) |
Stable
ISSN 2307-8235
