Epiaeschna

Alkali Fly - Ephydra hians, Mono Lake, CaliforniaacSuperregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Cladus: Odonatoptera
Cladus: Holodonata
Ordo: Odonata
Subordo: Epiprocta
Infraordo: Anisoptera
Superfamilia: Aeshnoidea

Familia: Aeshnidae
Subfamilia: Brachytroninae
Tribus: Brachytronini
Genus: Epiaeschna
Species: E. heros – †E. pseudoheros
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Name

Epiaeschna Hagen, in Selys, 1883
Synonyms

Triaeschna Campion, 1916
Epacantha Martynov, 1929
Mediaeschna Zhang, 1989

References

Nel, A.; Petrulevičius, J.F. 2010: Afrotropical and Nearctic genera of Odonata in the French Oligocene: biogeographic and paleoclimatic implications (Insecta: Calopterygidae, Aeshnidae). Annales de la Société entomologique de France (n.s.), 46: 228–236. ISSN: 0037-9271 [not seen]

Epiaeschna is a genus of darners in the dragonfly family Aeshnidae. There are about seven described species in Epiaeschna.[1][2][3][4][5]
Epiaeschna heros

Species

These seven species belong to the genus Epiaeschna:

Epiaeschna heros (Fabricius, 1798) (swamp darner)
† Epiaeschna pseudoheros Nel & Petrulevicius, 2010
† Epacantha magnifica (Martynov, 1929)
† Epiaeschna stauropolitana Martynov, 1927
† Mediaeschna lucida (Zhang, 1989)
† Mediaeschna matutina (Zhang, 1989)
† Triaeschna gossi (Campion, 1916)

References

"Epiaeschna Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
"Epiaeschna". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
"Epiaeschna genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
"Odonata Central". Retrieved 2019-07-02.

"World Odonata List". Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound. 2018. Retrieved 2019-07-02.

Further reading

Silsby, Jill (2001). Dragonflies of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 978-1560989592.
Steinmann, Henrik (1997). Wermuth, Heinz; Fischer, Maximilian (eds.). World Catalogue of Odonata, Volume II: Anisoptera. Das Tierreich. Vol. 111. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-014934-0.
Needham, James G.; Westfall Jr., Minter J. Jr.; May, Michael L. (2000). Dragonflies of North America. Scientific Publishers. ISBN 978-0-945417-94-1.
Kalkman, V. J. (2013). Studies on phylogeny and biogeography of damselflies (Odonata) with emphasis on the Argiolestidae (PhD). Leiden University. hdl:1887/22953.