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Sydney Hawk Dragonfly Indicative Distribution in NSW

Created 03/08/2025

Updated 14/08/2025

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The Sydney Hawk Dragonfly (Austrocordulia leonardiis) an extremely Description rare species of dragonfly. It is black and yellow with clear wings spanning 60-70mm, and with an abdomen length of 50-55mm. The aquatic larvae have a body length of 22-24mm. The Sydney Hawk Dragonfly spends most of its life underwater as an aquatic larva, before metamorphosing and emerging from the water as an adult. Adults are thought to only live for several weeks or a few months. They have specific habitat requirements, and have only ever been collected from deep river pools with cooler water and permanent flow. Larvae are found under rocks. www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/fishing/species-protection/whatcurrent/endangered-species2/sydney-hawk-dragonfly The indicative distribution was created using the NSW topographic hydroline: www.spatial.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/60931/NSW_To pographic_Data_Dictionaryv8.pdf Extent was determined using species records and expert opinion, within the hydrologic units determined by the Water Sharing Plan process: www.waternsw.com.au/supply/regional-nsw/water-sharingplans

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Title Sydney Hawk Dragonfly Indicative Distribution in NSW
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/0c64b09f-0607-4abf-a851-21c9011141f2
Remote Last Updated 15/07/2025
Contact Point
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD)
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Reference Period 08/07/2025
Geospatial Coverage New South Wales
Data Portal DataNSW

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This dataset was originally found on DataNSW "Sydney Hawk Dragonfly Indicative Distribution in NSW". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-sydney-hawk-dragonfly-indicative-distribution-in-nsw