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Anax imperator (Emperor Dragonfly )

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Wikipedia Abstract

The emperor dragonfly or blue emperor (Anax imperator) is a large species of hawker dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae, averaging 78 millimetres (3.1 in) in length. It is found mainly in Europe and nearby Africa and Asia.
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Ecoregions

Name 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    

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Aonyx capensis (African Clawless Otter)[3]
Dytiscus marginalis (Predaceous diving beetle)[1]
Plegadis falcinellus (Glossy Ibis)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Plagiorchis elegans[5]
Prosthogonimus cuneatus[5]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Ecology of Commanster
♦ 2Jorrit 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.
♦ 3DIET AND CONSERVATION STATUS OF CAPE CLAWLESS OTTERS IN EASTERN ZIMBABWE, J. R. A. BUTLER and J. T. DU TOIT, IUCN Otter Spec. Group Bull. 11 1995
♦ 4The Diet of the Glossy Ibis During the Breeding Season in Doñana, Southwest Spain, Mercedes Macías, Andy J. Green and Marta I. Sánchez, Waterbirds 27(2): 234-239. 2004
♦ 5Gibson, 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
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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