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Hawkers and Typical Darners
Aeshna
Aeshna, the hawkers or mosaic darners, is a genus of dragonflies in the family Aeshnidae. Species within this genus are generally known as "hawkers" in the Old World, or "darners" in the New World.
31 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 31 known species

Southern Hawker
speciesAeshna cyanea

Migrant Hawker
speciesAeshna mixta

Shadow Darner
speciesAeshna umbrosa

Canada Darner
speciesAeshna canadensis

Sedge Darner
speciesAeshna juncea

Brown Hawker
speciesAeshna grandis

Variable Darner
speciesAeshna interrupta

Paddle-tailed Darner
speciesAeshna palmata

Lance-tipped Darner
speciesAeshna constricta

Lake Darner
speciesAeshna eremita

Black-tipped Darner
speciesAeshna tuberculifera

Southern Migrant Hawker
speciesAeshna affinis

Green-striped Darner
speciesAeshna verticalis

Subarctic Darner
speciesAeshna subarctica

Siberian Hawker
speciesAeshna crenata

Aeshna soneharai
speciesAeshna soneharai

Azure Hawker
speciesAeshna caerulea

Zigzag Darner
speciesAeshna sitchensis

Green Hawker
speciesAeshna viridis

Mottled Darner
speciesAeshna clepsydra

Walker's Darner
speciesAeshna walkeri

Baltic Hawker
speciesAeshna serrata

Azure Darner
speciesAeshna septentrionalis

Aeshna petalura
speciesAeshna petalura

Persephone's Darner
speciesAeshna persephone

Aeshna shennong
speciesAeshna shennong

Aeshna vercanica
speciesAeshna vercanica

Mountain Stream Darner
speciesAeshna williamsoniana
Aeshna annulata
speciesAeshna annulata
Aeshna athalia
speciesAeshna athalia
Aeshna frontalis
speciesAeshna frontalis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 52520.