? Hawker dragonflies
Migrant Hawker (Aeshna mixta)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Hexapoda Order: Odonata Suborder: Anisoptera Family: Aeshnidae Genus: Aeshna
Genera
See text Download high resolution version (1536x2048, 616 KB)Aeshna mixta - Migrant Hawker August 2004 by Pethan File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Binomial name Aeshna mixta (Latreille, 1805) The Migrant Hawker (Aeshna mixta) is with its length of 63 mm one of the smaller species of hawker dragonflies. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Phyla Porifera (sponges) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria Placozoa Subregnum Bilateria  Acoelomorpha  Orthonectida  Rhombozoa  Myxozoa  Superphylum Deuterostomia     Chordata (vertebrates, etc. ... Subphyla and Classes Subphylum Trilobitomorpha Trilobita - Trilobites (extinct) Subphylum Chelicerata Arachnida - Spiders, Scorpions, etc. ... Classes & Orders Class Insecta (insects) Unplaced orders:    Order Diplura    Order Collembola (springtails)    Order Protura The subphylum Hexapoda constitutes the largest (in terms of number of species) grouping of arthropods and includes the insects as well as a few much smaller groups of wingless arthropods closely related to insects: Collembola, Protura... Suborders Anisoptera (dragonflies) Anisozygoptera Zygoptera (damselflies) Reference: ITIS 101593 as of 2002-07-26 Odonata is an order in the class Insecta, encompassing those insects commonly known as dragonflies (either when referring to the group as a whole or for the species in the suborder Anisoptera) and damselflies (for the... For other uses, see Dragonfly (disambiguation). ... Genera See text The hawkers (or darners in North America) (family Aeshnidae Rambur, 1842) include the largest dragonflies found in North America and Europe, and are among the largest of the dragonflies on the planet. ...

Aeshna Fabricius,1775, or the hawker dragonflies or (Am.) mosaic darners, is a genus from the family of darners (Aeshnidae). Johann Christian Fabricius. ... Families Aeshnidae Austropetaliidae Cordulegastridae Corduliidae Gomphidae Libellulidae Neopetaliidae Petaluridae Dragonflies have multifaceted compound eyes set close together The Dragonfly (suborder Anisoptera) is an insect belonging to the Order Odonata. ...

Descripton

The name 'Aeschna' has been used for a long time, but is now abandoned for the original name 'Aeshna'

These are relatively larger dragonflies. Their thorax and abdomen has a brown color, with blue or yellow stripes or spots on the thorax, and yellow, blue or green spots on the abdomen.

This genus has recently been split into Aeshna and Rhinoaeschna

Species

Genus Aeshna

• Aeshna absoluta Calvert, 1952
• Aeshna affinis : Southern Migrant Hawker
• Aeshna biliosa Kennedy, 1938
• Aeshna bonariensis Rambur, 1842
• Aeshna brevifrons Hagen, 1861
• Aeshna brevistyla
• Aeshna caerulea
• Aeshna canadensis Walker, 1908: Canada Darner.
• Aeshna clepsydra Say, 1839: Mottled Darner.
• Aeshna coerulea (Ström, 1783)
• Aeshna confusa Rambur, 1842
• Aeshna constricta Say, 1839: Lance-tailed Darner, Lance-tipped Darner
• Aeshna cornigera Brauer, 1865
• Aeshna crenata Hagen, 1856
• Aeshna cyanea : Blue Darner, Southern Aeschna
• Aeshna cyanida
• Aeshna decessus Calvert, 1953
• Aeshna deffini
• Aeshna diffinis Rambur, 1842
• Aeshna draco Racenis, 1958
• Aeshna dugesi Calvert, 1905
• Aeshna eduardoi Machado, 1984
• Aeshna elsia Calvert, 1952
• Aeshna eremita Scudder, 1866 : Lake Darner
• Aeshna furcifera
• Aeshna galapagoensis Currie, 1901
• Aeshna grandis
• Aeshna haarupi Ris, 1908
• Aeshna interrupta Walker, 1908 : Variable Darner
• Aeshna intricata Martin, 1908
• Aeshna jalapensis Wiiliamson, 1908
• Aeshna joannisi Martin, 1897
• Aeshna juncea (Linnaeus, 1758) : Sedge Darner
• Aeshna maita (Förster, 1909)
• Aeshna manni (Williamson & Williamson, 1930)
• Aeshna marchali Rambur, 1842
• Aeshna mixta Latreille, 1805 : Migrant Hawker
• Aeshna mutata Hagen, 1861 : Spatterdock Darner.
• Aeshna nubigena De Marmels, 1989
• Aeshna pallipes Fraser, 1947
• Aeshna palmata Hagen, 1856 : Paddle-tailed Darner
• Aeshna pauloi Machado, 1994
• Aeshna peralta Ris, 1918
• Aeshna persephone Donnelly, 1961 : Persephone's Darner
• Aeshna psilus Calvert, 1947
• Aeshna septentrionalis Burmeister, 1839
• Aeshna sitchensis Hagen, 1861 : Zigzag Darner
• Aeshna subarctica Walker, 1908 : Subarctic Darner
• Aeshna tinti von Ellenrieder, 2000
• Aeshna tuberculifera Walker, 1908 : Black-tipped Darner.
• Aeshna umbrosa Walker, 1908 : Shadow Darner
• Aeshna variegata Fabricius, 1775
• Aeshna vazquezae Gonzalez, 1986
• Aeshna verticalis Hagen, 1861 : Green-striped Darner
• Aeshna vigintipunctata Ris, 1918
• Aeshna walkeri Kennedy, 1917 : Walker's Darner
• Aeshna williamsoniana Calvert, 1905

Genus Rhinoaeschna Hermann August Hagen (1817 - 1893) was a German entomologist who specialised in Neuroptera and Odonata. ... Thomas Say. ... Carolus Linnaeus ~Carl Linnaeus~, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné (   listen?), and in English usually under the Latinized name Carolus Linnaeus (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of taxonomy. ... Binomial name Aeshna mixta (Latreille, 1805) The Migrant Hawker (Aeshna mixta) is with its length of 63 mm one of the smaller species of hawker dragonflies. ... Binomial name Aeshna mixta (Latreille, 1805) The Migrant Hawker (Aeshna mixta) is with its length of 63 mm one of the smaller species of hawker dragonflies. ...

• Rhinoaeschna californica Calvert, 1895  : California Darner
• Rhinoaeschna multicolor Hagen, 1861  : Blue-eyed Darner

Reference

Corbet, P. S. 1999. Dragonflies: Behavior and Ecology of Odonata. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, USA, 829pp.

External links

• California Darbers