Common Name (No. Observed)
Scientific Name
Dragonflies and Damselflies
Odonata
Black Percher
Scarlet Darter
Green Marsh Hawk (Oasis Skimmer)
Tropical Bluetail
Desert (Evan’s) Bluetail
Diplocodes lefebvrii
Crocothemis eythraea
Orthetrum sabina
Ischnura senegalensis
Ischnura evansi
Butterflies
Lepidoptera
Plain Tiger
Painted lady
Desert white
Danaus chrysippus
Vanessa cardui
Pontia glauconome
Lacewings
Neuroptera
Green lacewings
Chrysoperla sp.
Mayflies
Ephemeroptera
Mayfly
TBC
Beetles
Coleoptera
Arabian Dune Beetles
Jewel Beetles
Soft-wing Flower Beetles
Erodius sauditus
Julodis euphratica
Melyridae
Bees, Wasps and Ants
Hymenoptera
Desert Ants
Sugar Ants

Solitary Wasps
Oriental Hornet
Cuckoo Wasp
Sand Wasp

Carpenter Bees
Cataglyphis nodus
Lepisiota sp.

Spheciformess
Vespa orientalis
Chrysididae
Bembix sp.

Xylocopa fenestrata
Flies
Diptera
Hoverflies
Non-Biting Midges
Blue Bottle Fly
Flesh Flies
Robber Flies
Syrphidae
Chironomidae
Calliphora vomitoria
Sarcophagidae
Asilidae
Spiders, Ticks
Arachnids
Jumping Spiders
Radiated Wolf Spider
Tick (Acari)
Salticidae
Hogna radiata
Hyalomma sp.
Aphids
Aphididae
Green aphid
Unknown to species level

Total - >30 species