Epiaeschna

Epiaeschna
Temporal range: Middle Eocene to present
Epiaeschna heros
Scientific classification Edit this 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.

Epiaeschna heros

Species

These seven species belong to the genus Epiaeschna:

References

  1. ↑ "Epiaeschna Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. ↑ "Epiaeschna". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  3. ↑ "Odonata Central". Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  4. ↑ "World Odonata List". Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound. 2018. 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.
  6. ↑ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2025-08-21.
  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)". Palaeontologia Electronica. doi:10.26879/1126. Retrieved 2025-08-21.

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