Aeshna tyche Heer 1849 (hawker dragonfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Aeshnidae

Alternative combination: Aeschna tyche

Full reference: O. Heer. 1849. Die Insektenfauna der Tertiärgebilde von Oeningen und von Radoboj in Croatien. Zweiter Theil: Henschrecken, Florfliegen, Aderflügler, Schmetterlinge und Fliegen 1-264

Belongs to Aeshna according to A. Nel et al. 1994

See also Hagen 1850, Heer 1849, Kirby 1890 and Pongrácz 1931

Sister taxa: Aeschna (Aeschna), Aeschna acrodonta, Aeschna dido, Aeschna ollivieri, Aeschna vosendorfensis, Aeshna andancensi, Aeshna caseneuvensis, Aeshna cerdanica, Aeshna forficatum, Aeshna ghiandonii, Aeshna grandis, Aeshna heterofasciata, Aeshna ignivora, Aeshna isosceles, Aeshna larvata, Aeshna messiniana, Aeshna multicellulata, Aeshna oligocenica, Aeshna ollivieri, Aeshna paleocyanea, Aeshna shanwangensis, Aeshna solida, Aeshna stavropolensis, Aeshna theobaldi, Aeshna turoliana, Aeshna voesendorfensis, Aeshna zlatkokvaceki

Type specimen: Coll Karlsruhe, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Oeningen (Lavater'schen collection), which is in a Sarmatian crater lake limestone in the Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation of Germany.

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at Oeningen (Lavater'schen collection)

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