gegenes, pumilio, pigmy, skipper, dark, hottentot, butterfly, family, hesperiidae, found, from, coasts, mediterranean, through, anatolia, himalaya, south, whole, africa, both, sithonia, greecescientific, classificationdomain, eukaryotakingdom, animaliaphylum, . Gegenes pumilio the pigmy skipper or dark Hottentot is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae It is found from the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea through Anatolia to the Himalaya and south in the whole of Africa Gegenes pumilioboth in Sithonia GreeceScientific classificationDomain EukaryotaKingdom AnimaliaPhylum ArthropodaClass InsectaOrder LepidopteraFamily HesperiidaeGenus GegenesSpecies G pumilioBinomial nameGegenes pumilio Hoffmannsegg 1804 1 SynonymsPapilio pumilio Hoffmannsegg 1804 Papilio aetna Boisduval 1840 Philoodus lefebvrii Rambur 1842 Philoodus lefebvrii Rambur 1840 Gegenes pygmaeus Cyrillo 1787 Gegenes aetna Boisduval 1840 Gegenes lefebvrei Rambur 1840 Pamphila gambica Mabille 1878 Pamphila occulta Trimen 1891 Parnara ursula Holland 1896The length of the forewings is about 14 mm Adults are on wing from April to October in multiple generations The larvae feed on various grasses including Gramineae species as well as Pennisetum clandestinum Ehrharta including Ehrharta erecta and Cynodon species 2 Subspecies editGegenes pumilio pumilio southern Europe Middle East India United Arab Emirates Saudi Arabia Yemen Oman Gegenes pumilio gambica Mabille 1878 Africa Arabia to Lebanon Turkey to northern Pakistan Kashmir Gegenes pumilio monochroa Rebel 1907 Yemen Socotra References edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gegenes pumilio nbsp Wikispecies has information related to Gegenes pumilio Gegenes at funet fi Afrotropical Butterflies Hesperiidae Subfamily HesperiinaeExternal links editAll butterflies of Europe Lepiforum Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa nbsp This Hesperiinae related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Gegenes pumilio amp oldid 1013630236, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
