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Aeshna juncea (Common Hawker)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The common hawker, moorland hawker or sedge darner (Aeshna juncea) is one of the larger species of hawker dragonflies. It is native to Palearctic (from Ireland to Japan) and northern North America. The flight period is from June to early October.
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Infraspecies

Aeshna juncea angustistyla
Aeshna juncea juncea
Aeshna juncea mongolica
Aeshna juncea ocellata
Aeshna juncea orientalis

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Upper Danube Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland Palearctic Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands    

Protected Areas

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Prey / Diet

Predators

Aeshna juncea (Common Hawker)[1]
Dytiscus marginalis (Predaceous diving beetle)[1]
Holocentropus picicornis[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Prosthogonimus cuneatus[3]
Prosthogonimus ovatus[3]

External References

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Citations

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.
♦ 2Temporal Variation in Food Web Structure: 16 Empirical Cases, Kenneth Schoenly and Joel E. Cohen, Ecological Monographs, 61(3), 1991, pp. 267–298
♦ 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
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