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Id | 1011 | ||||||||||||
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Blue-eyed Hawker (Aeshna affinis) Sydlig Mosaikguldsmed (dk) Esna Zafiro (es) Klarblå Mosaikslända (se) |
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Røsnæs-halvøen, Denmark
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Date | 2022-07-31 | ||||||||||||
Comment |
Imago. ♂. The tip of the peninsula. Mature, and my second in two days of this rare species in Denmark. This one was patrolling on the shelter side of a small patch of sedges at the edge of the open-bordered lake south of the road just below Naturskolen. There were quite a few Blue Emperors in the air too, but they tended to stay over the water, while this animal stayed strictly on the land side of the sedges. The one I saw the other day, apparently also preferred to stay out of the wind, why this might be a pattern with the species. Knowing that I'm able to find two animals of this rare species in two days, at very distant localities, and according to naturbasen.dk no-one else has found any this year, I'm wondering if people overlook them, taking them for blue emperors as they fly around. The behavior is similar and apart from the the very blue eye of the present species, they do look superficially alike, including the custom of letting the rear end of the abdomen hang low in flight (which might be what confuses people). Notice the bluish suffusion on the side of the thorax, a feature of the old male. The animal was still there when I left. |
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collection | Rare | ||||||||||||
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