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A. mixta is a small aeshna which appears dark in flight. It is similar in appearance to other aeshnas but has a characteristic "golf-tee" shaped mark on the second segment of the abdomen (S2) which is diagnostic. In flight it looks like a small Emperor dragonfly with a blue abdomen which, when seen from the side, curves down.
A. affinis and A. mixta are very alike in appearance. Blue aeshna are frequently seen in late summer but there are not many positive identifications of either species on record. Aeshna isoceles often put into the genus Anaciaeschna, green-eyed hawker - this species flies early in the year and is the only brown aeshna found on Menorca. Can be ...
Aeshna juncea (Linnaeus, 1758) – common hawker, [5] sedge darner, [7] moorland hawker [2] Aeshna mixta Latreille, 1805 – migrant hawker [5] Aeshna palmata Hagen, 1856 – paddle-tailed darner [7] Aeshna persephone Donnelly, 1961 – Persephone's darner [7] Aeshna petalura Martin, 1909; Aeshna septentrionalis Burmeister, 1839 – azure ...
Aeshna juncea. Aeshna. Aeshna flavifrons Lichtenstein, 1976; Aeshna juncea mongolica; Aeshna mixta mixta Latreille, 1805; Aeshna petalura petalura; Anaciaeschna ...
Aeshna grandis (Linnaeus, 1758) †Aeshna heterofasciata Theobald, 1937 †Aeshna ignivora Zhang, 1989; Aeshna interrupta Walker, 1908; Aeshna juncea (Linnaeus, 1758) †Aeshna larvata Scudder, 1890 †Aeshna messiniana Gentilini & Peters, 1993; Aeshna mixta Latreille, 1805 †Aeshna multicellulata Gentilini & Peters, 1993 †Aeshna oligocenica ...
Aeshna affinis is found in southern and central Europe and all around the Mediterranean, in North Africa and the Middle East and across Asia to China. It is found on many Mediterranean islands including Menorca, Corsica, and Sicily. Where it occurs with A. mixta, which has a more northerly distribution, it is less common. It is a migrant ...
Southern hawker (Aeshna cyanea) Brown hawker (Aeshna grandis) Green-eyed hawker (Aeshna isoceles) Common hawker (Aeshna juncea) Migrant hawker (Aeshna mixta) Aeshna ossiliensis; Paddle-tailed darner (Aeshna palmata) Persephone's darner (Aeshna persephone) Aeshna petalura; Baltic hawker (Aeshna serrata) Shadow darner (Aeshna umbrosa) Green ...
Common hawker, Aeshna juncea; Brown hawker, Aeshna grandis; Migrant hawker, Aeshna mixta - recent arrival, thought to be breeding (2022) at around seven sites; Common darter, Sympetrum striolatum; Black darter, Sympetrum danae - possibly endangered by drier springs drying out its upland pools; Red-veined darter, Sympetrum fonscolombi