Wandering Midget

Wandering Midget

Agriocnemis pygmaea

Daily sighting probability ~30% · Possible
at Sundarbans National Park

In 3 days ~70% in a week ~90%

8 Verified sightings at Sundarbans National Park From 2019 to 2026
8 In 1 park
April 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 Sundarbans National Park?

Possible

About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Wandering Midget sighting in Sundarbans National Park on a given day, based on 8 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 10th most-seen of the 15 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 70%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.

When is the best time to see a Wandering Midget in Sundarbans National Park?

April

In that month about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Wandering Midget in Sundarbans National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January and July, the lowest months. That is one of Sundarbans National Park's driest months, with about 55 mm of rain against 480 mm in July. June has too few records to rate.

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.

Where else can you see a Wandering Midget?

Only Sundarbans National Park, in our data

Sundarbans National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Wandering Midget sightings: about 30% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.

Which relatives of the Wandering Midget live in Sundarbans National Park?

Same order: Odonata

The closest relatives of the Wandering Midget that you can see in Sundarbans National Park (order Odonata, Dragonflies and Damselflies) are Scarlet Skimmer (about 40%), Pied Paddy Skimmer (about 40%) and Oriental Blue Dasher (about 40%), 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 Sundarbans National Park (8 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), 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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