Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Odonata > Aeshnidae > Aeshna > Aeshna cyaneaAeshna cyanea (Southern Hawker Dragonfly)Synonyms: Aeschna bicellulata; Aeschna cyanea; Aeschna cyanea bicellulata; Aeschna maculatissima; Aeshna aenea; Aeshna anquis; Aeshna atshischgho; Aeshna bicellulata; Aeshna maculatissima; Aeshna varia; Libellula cyanea (homotypic) The southern hawker or blue hawker (Aeshna cyanea) is a 70 millimetres (2.8 in) long species of hawker dragonfly.The species is one of the most common and most widespread dragonflies in Europe. The total range is West Palearctic and covers a large part of Europe (to Scotland and southern Scandinavia in the North to Italy (without the Southwest) and the northern Balkans to the South); the Eastern boundary is formed by the Ural and the West by Ireland. It is also found in Northwest Africa (Algeria). In Central Europe the species is very common |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land Use |
Central & Western Europe |
Austria, Belgium, Byelarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom |
Palearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Upper Danube |
Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland |
Palearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Name |
IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Bath and Bradford-on-Avon Bats |
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265 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Breckland |
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18652 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Burnham Beeches |
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946 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Dee Estuary/ Aber Dyfrdwy |
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39057 |
England/Wales, United Kingdom |
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Dorset Heaths |
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14161 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Dorset Heaths (Purbeck and Wareham) and Studland Dunes |
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5491 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Epping Forest |
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3966 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Fal and Helford |
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15785 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Fenland |
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1529 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Fenn`s, Whixall, Bettisfield, Wem and Cadney Mosses |
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2346 |
England/Wales, United Kingdom |
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Mendip Limestone Grasslands |
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1032 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Minsmere to Walberswick Heaths and Marshes |
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3127 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Morecambe Bay |
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151985 |
England, United Kingdom |
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North Somerset and Mendip Bats |
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1387 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Pembrokeshire Bat Sites and Bosherston Lakes/ Safleoedd Ystlum Sir Benfro a Llynnoedd Bosherston |
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303 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Richmond Park |
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2092 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Rixton Clay Pits |
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35 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Roydon Common and Dersingham Bog |
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869 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Sefton Coast |
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11278 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Severn Estuary/ Môr Hafren |
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182155 |
England/Wales, United Kingdom |
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Sidmouth to West Bay |
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2217 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Solway Firth |
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107829 |
England/Scotland, United Kingdom |
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The Broads |
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14554 |
England, United Kingdom |
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The New Forest |
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72309 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Winterton – Horsey Dunes |
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1053 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Yewbarrow Woods |
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279 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 2Ecology of Commanster♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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