Northern Evening Darner

Telephlebia cyclops · Order: Odonata · Family: Aeshnidae

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Northern Evening Darner
Photo: Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA

The Northern Evening Darner is a medium-to-large dragonfly with dark chestnut brown body and dark wing-edge markings. It lives only in eastern Australia, often near tropical waterfalls, and is active at dusk.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Its wings have dark markings along the leading edge.

Source: Wikipedia

Size

It is a medium to large dragonfly.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

It is found at tropical waterfalls in eastern Australia.

Source: Wikipedia

When you see it

It flies at dusk.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

It is endemic to eastern Australia.

Source: Wikipedia

More photos

Northern Evening Darner photo 2
Photo: Ged Tranter, CC BY
Northern Evening Darner photo 3
Photo: Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA
Northern Evening Darner photo 4
Photo: Ged Tranter, CC BY
Northern Evening Darner photo 5
Photo: Louis Backstrom, CC BY

Same family (Aeshnidae)

Common Green DarnerCommon Green DarnerAnax juniusSouthern HawkerSouthern HawkerAeshna cyaneaHarmlessBlue EmperorBlue EmperorAnax imperatorMigrant HawkerMigrant HawkerAeshna mixtaBlue-eyed DarnerBlue-eyed DarnerRhionaeschna multicolorShadow DarnerShadow DarnerAeshna umbrosa

Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephlebia_cyclops

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Text written 2026-10-24 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-23.

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