# Anax Imperator 2(loz)

- By: Loz (L. B. Tettenborn)
- Date: 9 May 2009
- Classification: Photograph
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anax_Imperator_2(loz).JPG)
- Rights: [CC BY-SA 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/e/e1/Anax_Imperator_2%28loz%29.JPG/1920px-Anax_Imperator_2%28loz%29.JPG
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Teneral male Emperor (Anax imperator) in the Ahlenmoor, a peatland in northern Lower Saxony, Germany. The dragonfly still clings to the exuvium from which it has just escaped. The wings are already fully unfolded; however, they have not hardened yet. The abdomen still has to stretch to its final size, its marking have yet to develop.