Epiaeschna
| Epiaeschna Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
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| Epiaeschna heros | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Odonata |
| Suborder: | Anisoptera |
| Family: | Aeshnidae |
| Genus: | Epiaeschna Hagen in Selys, 1883 |
Epiaeschna is a genus of darners in the dragonfly family Aeshnidae. A single extant species, E. heros, is known from eastern North America, in addition to six fossil species known from Eurasia, suggesting the genus had a much wider distribution in the past.[1][2][3][4][5]
Species
[edit]These seven species belong to the genus Epiaeschna:[6]
- Epiaeschna heros (Fabricius, 1798) (swamp darner)
- †Epiaeschna gossi (Campion, 1916) (Middle Eocene of England)[7]
- †Epiaeschna magnifica (Martynov, 1929) (Late Oligocene of Kazakhstan)
- †Epiaeschna pseudoheros Nel & Petrulevicius, 2010 (Late Oligocene of France)
- †Epiaeschna stauropolitana Martynov, 1927 (mid-Miocene of Crimea)
- †Epiaeschna matutina (Zhang, 1989) (Miocene of China)
- †Epiaeschna wisseri Nel, Poschmann & Wedmann, 2020 (Late Oligocene of Germany)[8]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Epiaeschna Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ↑ "Epiaeschna". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ↑ "Epiaeschna genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ↑ "Odonata Central". Retrieved 2019-07-02.
- ↑ "World Odonata List". Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound. 2018. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
- ↑ Garrouste, Romain; Nel, André (2019-11-17). "Alaskan Palaeogene insects: a challenge for a better knowledge of the Beringian 'route' (Odonata: Aeshnidae, Dysagrionidae)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 17 (22): 1939–1946. doi:10.1080/14772019.2019.1572235. ISSN 1477-2019.
- ↑ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2025-08-21.
- ↑ Universités~andre.nel@mnhn.fr, André Nel~Sorbonne; Rheinland-Pfalz~markus.poschmann@gdke.rlp.de, Markus J. Poschmann~Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe; Sonja Wedmann~Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Forschungsstation Grube Messel~sonja wedmann@senckenberg de (2020-12-06). "New dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata) from the late Oligocene of Enspel (Rhineland-Palatinate, SW Germany)". Palaeontologia Electronica. doi:10.26879/1126. Retrieved 2025-08-21.
Further reading
[edit]- Silsby, Jill (2001). Dragonflies of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 978-1560989592.
- Steinmann, Henrik (1997). Wermuth, Heinz; Fischer, Maximilian (eds.). World Catalogue of Odonata, Volume II: Anisoptera. Das Tierreich. Vol. 111. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-014934-0.
- Needham, James G.; Westfall Jr., Minter J. Jr.; May, Michael L. (2000). Dragonflies of North America. Scientific Publishers. ISBN 978-0-945417-94-1.
- Kalkman, V. J. (2013). Studies on phylogeny and biogeography of damselflies (Odonata) with emphasis on the Argiolestidae (PhD). Leiden University. hdl:1887/22953.
External links
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