Wandering Midget

Wandering Midget

Agriocnemis pygmaea

Daily sighting probability ~20% · Possible
at Mysuru

In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%

24 Verified sightings at Mysuru
8 In 1 park From 2019 to 2026
November Best month
☀️🌙 Day & Night When it's spotted

About the Wandering Midget

Agriocnemis pygmaea (pygmy wisp) is a species of damselfly in the family Coenagrionidae. It is also known as wandering midget, pygmy dartlet or wandering wisp. It is well distributed across Asia and parts of Australia. Agriocnemis pygmaea is a small damselfly with black capped green eyes, black thorax with apple green stripes on lateral sides. Segments 1 to 7 of its abdomen is black on dorsum and pale green on ventral half. The remaining segments are orange-red. Very old males may get pruinosed on the dorsum of the head and the thorax with snowy white, making all the markings beneath being quite obscured. Female is more robust and exhibits several color morphs. The green color of the male is replaced by red in the females in the red forms. In androchrome forms, the female has same green colors as in the male. Female colour variation is depended on ontogenic colour change

associated with sexual development too. Agriocnemis pygmaea breeds in marshes and ponds. The genus name Agriocnemis is derived from two Greek words: agrion or ἄγριος, meaning wild, and cnemis or κνημίς, meaning legging. Agrion was the name given in 1775 by Johan Fabricius... Wikipedia →

Global Distribution

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Daily sighting probability
1 Sundarbans National Park 🇮🇳 India
~30%

More parks will be added in future updates.

Cities Where Found

# City Country Daily sighting probability
1 Berhampore 🇮🇳 India
~40%
2 Tiruchirappalli 🇮🇳 India
~40%
3 Kolkata 🇮🇳 India
~30%
4 Chennai 🇮🇳 India
~30%
5 Prayagraj 🇮🇳 India
~30%
6 Jamshedpur 🇮🇳 India
~30%
7 Thrissur 🇮🇳 India
~30%
8 Vadodara 🇮🇳 India
~30%
9 Surat 🇮🇳 India
~30%
10 Kota 🇮🇳 India
~30%

Before you go

What are the chances of seeing a Wandering Midget in Mysuru?

Possible

About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Wandering Midget sighting in Mysuru on a given day, based on 24 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 28th most-seen of the 95 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.

When is the best time to see a Wandering Midget in Mysuru?

November and December

In those months about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Wandering Midget in Mysuru on a given day, against under 5% in January–February and August–October, the lowest months. Those are among Mysuru's driest months, with about 35 mm of rain a month against 140 mm in September.

What time of day is best to see a Wandering Midget?

Between 10 am and 1 pm

Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Wandering Midget sightings with a recorded time, and about 6 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is seen both by day and at night.

Is Mysuru the best place to see a Wandering Midget?

23rd of 41

Of the 41 cities where we can rate Wandering Midget sightings, Mysuru ranks 23rd at about 20%. The best odds are in Berhampore (India, about 40%), Tiruchirappalli (India, about 40%) and Kolkata (India, about 30%).

Which relatives of the Wandering Midget live in Mysuru?

Same family: Coenagrionidae

The closest relatives of the Wandering Midget that you can see in Mysuru (family Coenagrionidae, Narrow-winged Damselflies) are Coromandel Marsh Dart (about 30%), Common Bluetail (about 30%) and Malabar Sprite (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.

Where does the Wandering Midget sighting chance come from?

GBIF citizen-science records

It is estimated from how often the Wandering Midget is recorded against all the insects logged in Mysuru (24 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.

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