Country‐level checklists and occurrences for the world's Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies)

Abstract Aim Biogeographical inference and assessments of species' threat status trends depend on comprehensive information the current geographical distribution species. Even country‐level presences remain poorly known for many insect species consistent global overviews those are missing. Here we integrate from literature checklists, point occurrences, identify potential range gaps to provide a database checklists dragonfly damselfly useful baseline biogeographical assessment assessing remaining in taxonomic spatial knowledge. Location Global. Taxon Odonata (damselflies dragonflies). Methods Our checklist contains 491 sources, with focus data 1990 2021 reflect present country boundaries. Additionally, apply novel method interpolate species–country combinations missing by generating list >50% surrounding countries. Results Of 6,322 globally recognized odonate species, taxonomically harmonized records quality‐controlled occurrence address 6,076 4,170 respectively. compilation provides total 31,569 unique combinations, 23,239 uniquely provided 2,031 data, Main Conclusions This dataset resource scientists conservation practitioners examine questions related richness, distributions, regional conservation, coverage. The combined most available date Odonata. results show that occurrences concordant well‐studied regions complementary value tropical species‐rich