Common hawker: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the common hawker lives – recorded in 4 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Aeshna juncea
Group	Dragonflies & damselflies
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	4 countries
Continents	Asia, Europe
Class	Insect
Order	Odonata
Family	Aeshnidae

Where does the common hawker live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the common hawker in 4 countries and territories across Asia and Europe. Wikidata lists it as endemic to India.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

Is the common hawker endangered?

The common hawker’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the common hawker?

The common hawker (Aeshna juncea) is an insect in the order Odonata and the family Aeshnidae, genus Aeshna. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the common hawker

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.

It is 74 millimetres (2.9 in) long with a brown body. The male has a black abdomen with paired blue and yellow spots on each abdominal segment, and narrow stripes along the dorsal surface of the thorax. In the female, the abdomen is brown with yellow or sometimes green or blue spots. The wings of both sexes display a yellow costa (the major vein running along the leading edge of the wings). This species lacks the green thorax stripes of the southern hawker.

Female common hawkers will sometimes dive out of the sky and feign death in order to avoid copulating with males.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Common hawker (revision 1314130036), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q732875 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).