#3717 · 🪽 dragonflies & damselflies

Green Hawker

🇳🇱 Groene Glazenmaker ·Aeshna viridis

LCleast concern 🪽 Dragonflies & damselflies 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Erland Refling Nielsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © G. U. Tolkiehn · CC BY 4.0
3. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Владимир Онишко · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Владимир Онишко · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Матвей Михайлов · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Владимир Онишко · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Aeshna viridis , the green hawker , is a species of dragonfly in the family Aeshnidae. It is found in Austria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Sweden, and Ukraine. Its natural habitats are rivers, swamps, lakes, and marshes. It is threatened by habitat loss in parts of its range but in general it is not very vulnerable.

base stats

NL sightings 40iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 731iNaturalist 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).