Yellow-banded Skipper
Pyrgus sidae
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Insects
Pyrgus sidae, the yellow-banded skipper, is a species of skipper. It is found from the Iberian Peninsula through southern and eastern Europe, southeast France, the northwestern coastal areas of central Italy, then Istria and the Balkan Peninsula, across Turkey, Transcaucasia, to Iran and Afghanistan. East of the Southern Ural Mountains the range extends to northwest Kazakhstan and the west of the Tien Shan in the north.
Classification
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Genus
- Pyrgus