Apart from early foreign adventurers, the first modern local researcher of dragonflies was famous mosquito expert Lien Jih-ching, who, although mainly studying two-winged flies, also collected and classified dragonflies.
除早期探險家，近代本土最早研究蜻蜓的學者，便是知名的「蚊子專家」連日清，他在研究雙翅目昆蟲的同時「兼營副業」，順帶採集蜻蜓加以分類。