TL: North-West Africa, Barbaria

Dark brown, base smoky black ; inner margin of the hindwing paler than the ground colour, and a few white dots on the forewing in the female. Underside pale brown, with some obscure white spots towards the tip of the forewing, and in the female at the hind-margin of the hindwing also.

Habitat

  • Dry sunny slopes
  • Rocky slopes
  • Rocky slopes
  • Semi-deserts

MU
FU

30-32 mm

MD
FD
Phenogram based on the literature
  • Local names
  • LanguageVernacular name
    ArmenianՆոստրադամուս հաստագլխիկ
    CatalàSageta negra
    EnglishDingy Swift
    EnglishLight Pygmy Skipper
    EnglishMediterranean Skipper
    EspañolVeloz de las Rieras
    FrançaisHespérie du riz
    HrvatskiMediteranski debeloglavac
    NederlandsGroot kustdikkopje
    PolskiKarłątek Nostrodamus
    ShqipMesdhetarja njollabardhë
    TürkçeNostrodamus
    ΕλληνικάΕσπερίδα της Μέσης Ανατολής
    РусскийТолстоголовка нострадам
    ייִדישהספרית עשב
  • Primary hostplants
  • FamilyLatin nameVernacular name
    PoaceaeAeluropus
    PoaceaePanicumPanicgrass
    PoaceaePoaMeadow-grass
  • Synonyms and other combinations
  • Latin nameAuthor
    Hesperia nostrodamusFabricius, 1793

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