Common hawker

Common Hawker
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Odonata
Family:	Aeshnidae
Genus:	Aeshna
Species:	A. juncea
Binomial name
	Aeshna juncea; (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
	Aeshna rustica Zetterstedt, 1840; Aeshna undulata Bartenev, 1930; Libellula juncea L. 1758

The common hawker,^[2] moorland hawker^[1] or sedge darner^[1] (Aeshna juncea) is one of the larger species of hawker dragonflies. It is native to Palearctic (from Ireland to Japan) and northern North America. The flight period is from June to early October.

It is 74 millimetres (2.9 in) long with a brown body. The male has a black abdomen with paired blue and yellow spots on each abdominal segment, and narrow stripes along the dorsal surface of the thorax. In the female, the abdomen is brown with yellow or sometimes green or blue spots. The wings of both sexes display a yellow costa (the major vein running along the leading edge of the wings). This species lacks the green thorax stripes of the southern hawker.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Template:IUCN2014.2
^ "Common Hawker". British Dragonfly Society. Retrieved 11 June 2011.

"Aeshna juncea". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 6 February 2006.
"Aeshna juncea". DragonflyIreland. Retrieved 11 June 2011.

External links

IUCN distribution

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[IUCN-1] Template:IUCN2014.2

[BDS-2] "Common Hawker". British Dragonfly Society. Retrieved 11 June 2011.

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