Hairy dragonfly

Brachytron pratense
Hawkers (Aeshnidae )

♂

Hairy dragonflyon RikenMon's Nature.Guide

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A large slender hawker with a marked dark body. The body is hairy and a brown top with yellow-greenish sides with 2 black lines. The head is greenish yellow with black markings. 

The black rump has small yellow greenish markings for the ♀ with brown eye markings instead of lines on her shoulder and her wings have a brown front. The ♂ has blue markings on the dark rear section, yellow-green shoulder lines and blue eyes.

It prefers wetlands with reeds.

⇔ l. 55-65 mm

syn. Common hawker, Moorland hawker, Sedge darne

LA:
≈ The AESHNA GRANDIS (Brown hawker) is brown and has a brown body with 2 yellow sidelines.

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