Epiaeschna
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| Epiaeschna Temporal range: | |
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| Epiaeschna heros | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Odonata |
| Infraorder: | 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.[1][2][3][4][5]
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]
