The past, present and future of dragonfly research in Indonesia

Abstract

Up to present, Indonesia has 900 described species of dragonflies with around 70% are endemic; among them, the most diverse is in Papua. This data is collected based on 356 publications from scientific journals, bulletins, magazines, books, theses, and proceedings from 1773 to 2019. There is still a lack of information about what is the most and least popular topics and where is the most explored regions in Indonesia for Odonata research. I categorized the topics into biodiversity, taxonomy and systematics, biogeography, conservation, ecology, education, ethnozoology, history, and molecular. The result shows that the most popular topic is biodiversity by 139 publications and the least are history and molecular by only one publication. Most popular group to be observed is dragonflies in general (both suborders) by 200 publications and the least observed is Anisoptera by only 71 publications. Java is the most explored island for about 160 publications in 250 years.