Cordulegaster

{{Short description|Genus of dragonflies}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Cordulegaster.boltonii.adult.jpg

| image_caption = C. boltonii

| taxon = Cordulegaster

| authority = Leach, 1815

| synonyms = * Thecaphora Charpentier, 1840

• Cordylogaster Agassiz, 1846 (Emend.)
• Taeniogaster Selys, 1854
• Thecagaster Selys, 1854
• Thecaphora Selys, 1854 (Preocc.)
• Zoraena Kirby, 1890
• Kuldanagaster Yousuf & Yunus, 1974
• Archegaster Lohmann, 1992
• Kalyptogaster Lohmann, 1992
• Lauragaster Lohmann, 1992
• Pangaeagaster Lohmann, 1992
• Sonjagaster Lohmann, 1992

}}

Cordulegaster is a genus of dragonflies in the family Cordulegastridae. It contains the following species:[https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id1629/ BioLib]

• Cordulegaster annandalei {{small|(Fraser, 1923)}}
• Cordulegaster bidentata {{small|Selys, 1843}} – sombre goldenring
• Cordulegaster bilineata {{small|(Carle, 1983)}} – brown spiketail{{cite web|title=North American Odonata|url=http://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/academic-resources/slater-museum/biodiversity-resources/dragonflies/north-american-odonata/|publisher=University of Puget Sound|accessdate=5 August 2010|year=2009}}
• Cordulegaster boltonii {{small|(Donovan, 1807)}} – golden-ringed dragonfly,{{cite web|title=Checklist of UK Species|url=http://british-dragonflies.org.uk/content/uk-species|publisher=British Dragonfly Society|accessdate=5 August 2010}} common goldenring{{cite web|title=Checklist, English common names |url=http://www.dragonflypix.com/checklist.html |publisher=DragonflyPix.com |accessdate=5 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20121204160258/http://www.dragonflypix.com/checklist.html |archivedate=4 December 2012 }}
• Cordulegaster brevistigma {{small|Selys, 1854}}
• Cordulegaster diadema {{small|Selys, 1868}} – Apache spiketail
• Cordulegaster diastatops {{small|(Selys, 1854)}} – delta-spotted spiketail
• Cordulegaster dorsalis {{small|Hagen in Selys, 1858}} – Pacific spiketail
• Cordulegaster erronea {{small|Selys, 1878}} – tiger spiketail
• Cordulegaster helladica {{small|(Lohmann, 1993)}}
• Cordulegaster heros {{small|Theischinger, 1979}} – Balkan goldenring
• Cordulegaster insignis {{small|Schneider, 1845}}
• Cordulegaster jinensis {{small|Zhu & Han, 1992}}
• Cordulegaster lunifera {{small|(Sélys, 1878)}}
• Cordulegaster maculata {{small|Selys, 1854}} – twin-spotted spiketail
• Cordulegaster magnifica {{small|Bartenev, 1930}}
• Cordulegaster mzymtae {{small|Bartenev, 1929}}
• Cordulegaster nachitschevanica {{small|Skvortsov & Snegovaya, 2015}}
• Cordulegaster obliqua {{small|(Say, 1840)}} – arrowhead spiketail
• Cordulegaster orientalis {{small|van Pelt, 1994}}
• Cordulegaster parvistigma {{small|(Selys, 1873)}}
• Cordulegaster picta {{small|Selys, 1854}} – Turkish goldenring
• Cordulegaster plagionyx {{small|Skvortsov & Snegovaya, 2015}}
• Cordulegaster princeps {{small|Morton, 1916}}
• Cordulegaster sarracenia {{small|Abbott & Hibbitts, 2011}}Abbott, J.C. & Hibbitts, T.D. (2011). "Cordulegaster sarracenia, n. sp. (Odonata: Cordulegastridae) from east Texas and western Louisiana, with a kew to adult Cordulegastridae of the New World." Zootaxa 2899: 60-68.
• Cordulegaster sayi {{small|Selys, 1854}} – Say's spiketail
• Cordulegaster talaria {{small|Tennessen, 2004}} – Ouachita spiketail
• Cordulegaster trinacriae {{small|Waterston, 1976}} – Italian goldenring
• Cordulegaster vanbrinkae {{small|Lohmann, 1993}}
• Cordulegaster virginiae {{small|Novelo-Gutiérrez, 2018}}