Klaas-Douwe B. Dijkstra

Klaas-Douwe Benediktus "KD" Dijkstra, Dutch entomologist.

• Naturalis Biodiversity Center, PO Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 77 taxon names authored by Klaas-Douwe B. Dijkstra

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2004

• Dijkstra, K.-D.B. & Kisakye, J.J. 2004. Idomacromia jillianae sp. nov. from Uganda (Odonata: Corduliidae). International Journal of Odonatology 7(3): 459–466. DOI: 10.1080/13887890.2004.9748231 Reference page. 

2006

• Dijkstra, K.-D.B. & Vick, G.S. 2006. Inflation by venation and the bankruptcy of traditional genera: the case of Neodythemis and Micromacromia, with keys to the continental African species and the description of two new Neodythemis species from the Albertine Rift (Odonata: Libellulidae). International Journal of Odonatology 9(1): 51–70. DOI:10.1080/13887890.2006.9748263 Reference page. 

2007

• Dijkstra, K.-D.B. 2007. Tropical African Platycnemis damselflies (Odonata: Platycnemididae) and the biogeographical significance of a new species from Pemba Island, Tanzania. Systematics and Biodiversity 5(2): 187–198. DOI: 10.1017/S1477200006002283 Full article Reference page. 
• Dijkstra, K.-D.B., Samways, M.J. & Simaika, J.P. 2007. Two new relict Syncordulia species found during museum and field studies of threatened dragonflies in the Cape Floristic Region (Odonata: Corduliidae). Zootaxa 1467(1): 1–19. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1467.1.2 Reference page. 

2008

• Dijkstra, K.-D.B. 2008. The Systematist’s Muse – two new damselfly species from ‘Elisabetha’ in the Congo Basin (Odonata: Chlorocyphidae, Platycnemididae). Zoologische Mededelingen 82(3): 15–27, figs 1–8. PDF Reference page. 

2009

• Dijkstra, K-D.B. & Matushkina, N. 2009. Kindred spirits: "Brachythemis leucosticta", Africa's most familiar dragonfly, consists of two species (Odonata: Libellulidae). International Journal of Odonatology 12(2): 237–256. DOI: 10.1080/13887890.2009.9748343 Reference page. 

2013

• Dijkstra, K.-D.B., Bechly, G., Bybee, S.M., Dow, R.A., Dumont, H.J., Fleck, G., Garrison, R.W., Hämäläinen, M., Kalkman, V.J., Karube, H., May, M.L., Orr, A.G., Paulson, D.R., Rehn, A.C., Theischinger, G., Trueman, J.W.H., van Tol, J., von Ellenrieder, N. & Ware, J. 2013. The classification and diversity of dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata). In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2013. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness (Addenda 2013). Zootaxa 3703(1): 36–45. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.9 . Reference page. 
• Dijkstra, K.-D.B., Kalkman, V.J., Dow, R.A., Stokvis, F.R. & Tol, J. van 2014. Redefining the damselfly families: a comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Zygoptera (Odonata). Systematic Entomology 39(1): 68–96. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12035 . Reference page. 
• Dijkstra, K.-D.B. 2013. Three new genera of damselflies (Odonata: Chlorocyphidae, Platycnemididae). International Journal of Odonatology 16(3): 269–274. DOI: 10.1080/13887890.2013.832606 Reference page. 

2015

• Dijkstra, K.-D.B., Kipping, J. & Mézière, N. 2015. Sixty new dragonfly and damselfly species from Africa (Odonata). Odonatologica 44(4): 447–678. PDF. Reference page. 
• Garrison, R.W., Dijkstra, K.-D.B., Hämäläinen, M. & Villanueva, R.J.T. 2015. Mitragomphus ganzanus Needham, 1944, a geographically misplaced dragonfly, is a junior synonym of Gomphidia kirschii Selys, 1878 (Odonata: Gomphidae). Zootaxa 3911(2): 280–286. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3911.2.9 Reference page. 

2016

• Di Domenico, M., Dijkstra, K-D.B. & Carchini, G. 2016. Redescription of the larva of Gynacantha cylindrata Karsch (Insecta: Odonata: Aeshnidae): IN Pinto et al., Living among dragons: A festschrift in honor to Dr. Angelo B. M. Machado on occasion of his 80th birthday. Zootaxa 4078(1): 78–83. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4078.1.8.Reference page. 
• Mens, L.P., Schütte, K., Stokvis, F.R. & Dijkstra, K-D.B. 2016. Six, not two, species of Acisoma pintail dragonfly (Odonata: Libellulidae). Zootaxa 4109(2): 153–172. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4109.2.3. Reference page. 

2017

• Kipping, J., Clausnitzer, V., Elizalde, S.R.F.F. & Dijkstra, K-D.B. 2017. The dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata) of Angola. African Invertebrates 58(1): 65–91. DOI: 10.3897/AfrInvertebr.58.11382. Reference page. 

2019

• Hyde Roberts, S., Barker, L., Chmurova, L., Dijkstra, K.-D.B. & Schütte, K. 2019. Rediscovery of Libellulosoma minutum in the littoral forests of southeast Madagascar (Odonata: Corduliidae). Notulae Odonatologicae 9(4): 125–133. doi:10.5281/zenodo.3539746. https://zenodo.org/records/3539746/files/10.5281zenodo.3539746_Hyde-Roberts_et_al_2019.pdf?download=1.  Reference page. 

2021

• Bybee, S.M., Kalkman, V.J., Erickson, R.J., Frandsen, P.B., Breinholt, J.W., Suvorov, A., Dijkstra, K.-D.B., Cordero-Rivera, A., Skevington, J.H., Abbott, J.C., Sanchez Herrera, M., Lemmon, A.R., Lemmon, E. & Ware, J.L. 2021. Phylogeny and classification of Odonata using targeted genomics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 160: 107115. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107115 . Reference page. 

2025

• Bernard, R. & Daraż, B. & Ravelomanana, A. & Dijkstra, K.-D.B. 2025. Six new species of Nesocordulia McLachlan, 1882 reveal an insular evolutionary radiation of dragonflies on Madagascar (Odonata: Anisoptera: Libelluloidea). Zootaxa 5660(2): 151-193. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.2.1 PDF Reference page.