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Southern Hawker

Aeshna cyanea

88,803Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
104Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan11
Feb17
Mar37
Apr102
May548
Jun5,334
Jul20,836
Aug32,066
Sep21,313
Oct5,213
Nov455
Dec14

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England4,539
2Suffolk England4,092
3Devon England2,636
4Cambridgeshire England2,548
5Gloucestershire England2,249
6Worcestershire England2,106
7North Yorkshire England2,091
8Kent England1,904
9Oxfordshire England1,880
10Powys Wales1,697
11Dorset England1,510
12Surrey England1,389
13Somerset England1,325
14Northamptonshire England1,313
15Cornwall England1,295
80,702 England2,200 Scotland5,893 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 104 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
88,803
Peak month
August
Counties with records
104
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Aeshna cyanea
Group
Dragonflies and damselflies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
87,562
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Odonata
Family
Aeshnidae
Genus
Aeshna
Name with authority
Aeshna cyanea (Müller, 1764)
Described
1764
Contributing datasets
31

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q505187 · GBIF 1425240