Rusty Hawker Aeshna Isoceles
English name: Green-eyes Hawker / Norfolk Hawker.
Sometimes assigned to the genus Anaciaeschna.
Like all members of the hawker family, the rusty hawker tends to patrol its territory back and forth, and drive out any intruder from it.
Size: Large dragonfly (about 6-7 cm).
Habitat: Ditches, ponds and lakes with abundant vegetation. Mainly reeds.
Season: Flies between May and August. (According to data from Turkey)
Identification features:
Its entire body is rusty brown. On the second abdominal segment (from above) there is a yellow triangular shape (diagnostic mark), and on the sides of the thorax two yellow stripes. A thin black stripe runs לאורך the abdomen.
The eyes are green.
The male and female are similar, except for a narrowing on the third abdominal segment in the male that does not exist in the female.
It is probably that in the Israeli population the body color is slightly lighter and more chestnut-colored.
It should not be confused with any local species.
