Austroaeschna obscura
Sydney Mountain Darner at Hill Top, NSW
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| Austroaeschna obscura | HarveyPerkins | 12 Mar 2023 | |
| Austroaeschna obscura | GlossyGal | 28 Jan 2023 |
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Not confident re ID
4 comments
12 Mar 2023
I don't have huge experience with this species but have seen half a dozen or so up around Blackheath. Your photos appear to match all the described characteristics, and other photos on iNaturalist, pretty well, so I have confirmed. Must be close to it's southern limit at this location.
12 Mar 2023
I'd just looked it up on Canberra NP & saw there were no sightings there. What else could it be if not A. obscura?
12 Mar 2023
Not much - it's clearly in the multipunctata group, but it's none of the three that we get in ACT that I'm most familiar with. It's quite different to a Sigma Darner (which is also further north), and there are no other multipunctata-type species in the region. So even by elimination, we end up with obscura.
Location information
- Places Hill Top, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- GlossyGal Recorded by
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
- Alive / healthy Animal health
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Species information
- Austroaeschna obscura Scientific name
- Sydney Mountain Darner Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 871m Recorded at altitude
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