20. Orthetrum brunneum (Fonscolombe, 1837)

Conservation and breeding status: LC (EU), LC (IT), LC (MED), NB

Only one record relative to this palearctic lentic dragonfly was collected in EXP (6) and breeding was not confirmed. Until 2007 this species was reported as evenly distributed in plains and hills in Piedmont (Boano et al. 2007); later surveys confirmed a wider area of occurrence, which expands over the rice growing districts and penetrates the alpine valleys, including the province of VCO where a couple of records were collected over 1300 m (Riservato et al. 2014c; Clemente et al. 2011).