Aeshna juncea (Linnaeus, 1758), with a male of Aeshna mixta Latreille, 1805 on the backgeound

An omnipresent and widely ranging transpalaearctic species

A copula

SE Kazakhstan, the Dzhungarian Alatau mountain chain, the Mynchukur Range, the Kora River valley, a mixed birch/Tian Shan spruce forest, at a small lake. 11th August 1994.

O. Kosterin