Anax ephippiger (Burmeister, 1839)

Bazzi, Gaia, Galimberti, Andrea, Foglini, Claudio, Bani, Luciano, Bazzi, Lionello, Bonvicini, Piero, Brembilla, Roberto, Brigo, Massimo, Cavenaghi, Alberto, Colombo, Giuseppe, Della Pieta, Cesare, Galliani, Carlo, Guarnaroli, Ettore, Larroux, Nicola, Monti, Alessandro, Orioli, Valerio, Ornaghi, Francesco, Pilon, Nicola, Pirotta, Giuliana, Radaelli, Giovanni, Tessa, Giulia & Assandri, Giacomo, 2023, Odonate diversity of a highly urbanised region: An annotated checklist of the damselflies and dragonflies (Insecta, Odonata) of Lario and Brianza (Lombardy, N Italy), Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 111358-111358 : 111358

Anax ephippiger (Burmeister, 1839)

Native status

NR

Conservation status

erl: LC; irl: LC

Notes

Flight period: III June - II September

The species has been recorded in the study area only since 2018 and most of the records refer to 2019, when a massive invasion of this migrant and pioneer species was recorded in Europe ( Manger and De Knijf 2022). Most of the records refer to August-September, in line with the phenology of the species in northern Italy (e.g. Boano et al. (2007)) and no evidence of reproduction in the area has been collected until now.