Aeshna voesendorfensis Papp and Mandl 1951 (hawker dragonfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Aeshnidae

Alternative combination: Aeschna voesendorfensis

Full reference: A. Papp and K. Mandl. 1951. Insekten aus den Congerienschichten des Wiener Beckens. Sitzungsberichte der Östereichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 160:295-302

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

See also Bachmayer 1960 and Papp and Mandl 1951

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 tyche, Aeshna zlatkokvaceki

Type specimen: NHMW 18/1952, a forewing. Its type locality is Brunn-Vösendorf, which is in a Messinian lacustrine - large mudstone in Austria.

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at Brunn-Vösendorf

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