Green-Eyed Hawker
(Aeshna isoceles)

The thorax and abdomen of the Green-Eyed Hawker are essentially brown, but unlike the Brown Hawker, its wings are translucent. Aeshna isoceles has quite a patchy distribution; it occurs throughout Central and Southern Europe but seldom in large numbers. It's virtually absent from Iberia, Scandinavia and the British Isles. It's a smallish Hawker whose main distinguishing features are the yellow triangular mark on S2 which gives the species its scientific name, and its bright-green eyes which give it its common name.

For an overview of the Green-Eyed Hawker's distribution in Europe, hover your mouse pointer over the map symbol .
With the authors' permission we have based this map on data published in Kalkman et al. (2010).
Legend: Red = Occurs, White = Doesn't occur; Purple = Extinct; Yellow = Vagrant.

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