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In the year 1825 and 1840 Toussaint de CHARPENTIER published two very important for European odonatology works describing new species of dragon+ies. For 10 of them Śląsk (Silesia) was established as locus ty- picus, thus typical materials being the basis of species description came from the areas of Poland. CHARPENTIER lived and worked in Brzeg, in the vicinities of Opole.