Lesser dart
The lesser dart is a tiny skipper butterfly with dark brown wings and bright orange-yellow patches. Skippers are small butterflies that zip quickly from flower to flower. It lives in warm countries from India to Australia.
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Fun facts
With open wings it is only about 2 to 2.4 centimetres across.
It looks so much like its relatives that experts can only be sure which one it is by looking very closely at a male under a microscope.
Its wings are heavily dusted with yellowish scales near the front edges.
Most asked questions about Lesser dart
?How big is the lesser dart?
It is a small butterfly, about 2 to 2.4 centimetres across with open wings.
?Where does the lesser dart live?
In India, Indochina, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia and Australia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Potanthus omaha
- Named by
- Edwards, 1863
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Potanthus omaha (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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