Wandering midget
The wandering midget is a tiny damselfly, one of the smallest around. The male has green eyes with a black cap, a black body with apple green stripes, and a bright orange-red tail tip. It lives around marshes and ponds.
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Fun facts
Very old males get a snowy white powder on the head and body that hides their markings.
Females come in different colours. Some are red, others green like the males.
When a scientist first described it in 1842, he wrote that it was very small and dark green copper.
It lays its eggs in marshes and ponds.
Most asked questions about Wandering midget
?How big is the wandering midget?
It is very small for a damselfly, which is why it is called a midget or a pygmy.
?Where does the wandering midget live?
Across Asia and in parts of Australia, near marshes and ponds.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Agriocnemis pygmaea
- Named by
- Rambur, 1842
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Family
- Coenagrionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata > Coenagrionidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Pygmy wisp, Pygmy dartlet, Wandering wisp
Where the facts come from
- Agriocnemis pygmaea (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 Joydeep. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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