Gegenes nostrodamus, commonly known as the dingy swift, light pygmy skipper,Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae Mediterranean skipper or veloz de las rieras, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is found from the Mediterranean Sea, through Anatolia to Turkestan and India; and also in some subsaharan countries such as Burkina FasoTom Jamonneau, Abubakar S Ringim, Michel Libert, Andrea C Reyes Camargo, Alain Coache, Jérémy Bouyer, Annotated checklist of the butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Burkina Faso, West Africa—synthesis and new occurrences, Journal of Insect Science, Volume 26, Issue 3, May 2026, ieag018, https://doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/ieag018.
The length of the forewings is 15–16 mm. Adults are on wing from May to October in multiple generations.
The larvae feed on various grasses, including Gramineae, Aeluropus (in the Sinai Desert) and Aerulopus and Panicum species.
Description
Recorded from Campbellpore, Kala Pani and Hurripur, N.-W. India,(Butler).
References
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