Biology:Epiaeschna

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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]

Epiaeschna heros

Species

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

  1. "Epiaeschna Report". https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=101637. Retrieved 2019-09-23. 
  2. "Epiaeschna". https://www.gbif.org/species/1425090. Retrieved 2019-09-23. 
  3. "Odonata Central". https://www.odonatacentral.org/. Retrieved 2019-07-02. 
  4. "World Odonata List". Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound. 2018. https://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/academic-resources/slater-museum/biodiversity-resources/dragonflies/world-odonata-list/. Retrieved 2019-07-02. 
  5. 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. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2019.1572235. 
  6. "PBDB Taxon". https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=194953. 
  7. 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)" (in en). doi:10.26879/1126. https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2020/3250-odonata-from-enspel. 

Further reading

  • Silsby, Jill (2001). Dragonflies of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 978-1560989592. https://archive.org/details/dragonfliesofwor0000sils. 
  • Steinmann, Henrik (1997). World Catalogue of Odonata, Volume II: Anisoptera. Das Tierreich. 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.

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