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A key to Palaearctic dragonflies of the genus Aeschna Fabricius, 1775 (Odonata, Aeschnidae)

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Keys to 10 Palaearctic species of the dragonfly genus Aeschna are given. For adults of the two morphologically similar species Ae. juncea (Linnaeus, 1758) and Ae. subarctica Walker, 1908, new distinguishing characters are given. These are the shape of the genital plate and position of the anal appendages relative to the horizontal plane of the female body, and the shape of the processes of the anterior hooks of the male genitalia. Additionally, keys to the larvae based on characters of larvae reared in the laboratory are given. These keys allow species-level identification for early and middle larval instars.

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  1. Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

    O. E. Belevich

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Original Russian Text © O.E. Belevich, 2009, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2009, Vol. 88, No. 1, pp. 111–115.

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Belevich, O.E. A key to Palaearctic dragonflies of the genus Aeschna Fabricius, 1775 (Odonata, Aeschnidae). Entmol. Rev. 89, 185–188 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873809020080

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