#3708 · 🪽 dragonflies & damselflies

Subarctic Darner

🇳🇱 Noordse Glazenmaker ·Aeshna subarctica

LCleast concern 🪽 Dragonflies & damselflies 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Denis Doucet · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Denis Doucet · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Syd Cannings · CC BY 4.0
4. © Arūnas Čerkauskas · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Владимир Онишко · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Drenthe, NL:© christiaandevries · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Drenthe, NL:© christiaandevries · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Drouwen, Nederland:© René Manger · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 9531 Borger, Netherlands:© albertvliegenthart · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Netherlands:© christiaandevries · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Aeshna subarctica , the subarctic darner , is a species of darner in the family Aeshnidae. It is found in Europe & Northern Asia (excluding China) and North America.

base stats

NL sightings 83iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,299iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

Spotted 83 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #46 most seen of the dragonflies & damselflies in NL.
1,299 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Edmund Murton Walker in 1908 (118 years ago).