Epiaeschna

Epiaeschna is a genus of darners in the dragonfly family Aeshnidae. A single extant species, E. heros, is known from eastern North America, in addition to six fossil species known from Eurasia, suggesting the genus had a much wider distribution in the past.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Epiaeschna heros

Epiaeschna Temporal range: Middle Eocene to present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Epiaeschna heros
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Odonata
Infraorder:	Anisoptera
Family:	Aeshnidae
Genus:	Epiaeschna Hagen in Selys, 1883

Species

These seven species belong to the genus Epiaeschna:^[6]

• Epiaeschna heros (Fabricius, 1798) (swamp darner)
• †Epiaeschna gossi (Campion, 1916) (Middle Eocene of England)^[7]
• †Epiaeschna magnifica (Martynov, 1929) (Late Oligocene of Kazakhstan)
• †Epiaeschna pseudoheros Nel & Petrulevicius, 2010 (Late Oligocene of France)
• †Epiaeschna stauropolitana Martynov, 1927 (mid-Miocene of Crimea)
• †Epiaeschna matutina (Zhang, 1989) (Miocene of China)
• †Epiaeschna wisseri Nel, Poschmann & Wedmann, 2020 (Late Oligocene of Germany)^[8]