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#3680 · 🪽 dragonflies & damselflies

Norfolk Hawker

🇳🇱 Vroege Glazenmaker ·Isoaeschna isoceles

LCleast concern 🪽 Dragonflies & damselflies 📍 in the Netherlands
Norfolk Hawker, photo 1 of 9
1/9 © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

De vroege glazenmaker ( Isoaeschna isoceles ) is een echte libel (Anisoptera) uit de familie van de glazenmakers (Aeshnidae). Het is een oranjebruine glazenmaker met opvallend groene ogen. De soort was tot 1990 in Nederland vrij zeldzaam, maar wordt sinds die tijd algemener. Het is een mobiele soort, waarvan regelmatig zwervers worden aangetroffen.

base stats

  • NL sightings 467iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 4,880iNaturalist 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 467 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #19 most seen of the dragonflies & damselflies in NL.
  • 4,880 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1767 (259 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Norfolk Hawker
Nederlands
Vroege Glazenmaker
scientific name
Isoaeschna isoceles
class
Insecta
order
Odonata
family
Aeshnidae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
467
sightings in Europe
4,473
sightings worldwide
4,880
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1767 by Otto Friedrich Müller

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Aeshnidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 1510501, Wikidata Q134087593, Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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