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Southern Hawker

Aeshna cyanea

Classification

Class
Insecta
Order
Odonata
Family
Aeshnidae

The southern hawker or blue hawker (Aeshna cyanea) is a species of hawker dragonfly. Distribution The species is one of the most common and most widespread dragonflies in Europe. The range in the Western Palearctic covers a large part of Europe, to Scotland and southern Scandinavia in the north and to Italy (without the southwest) and the northern Balkans in the south); the eastern boundary is formed by the Urals and the western by Ireland.

Distribution

Gerard Abbingh · CC BY
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United Kingdom · 17,670Netherlands · 16,188Germany · 15,238Switzerland · 5,988France · 1,663Spain · 598Italy · 589Belgium · 302Luxembourg · 172