Yellow-branded Skipper (Pyrgus sidae)

Pyrgus sidae is a species in the Pyrgus genus. It is commonly known as Yellow-branded Skipper This name is unplaced name for the species in the family Hesperiidae subfamily Pyrginae, tribe Pyrgini, . This species is found in Iberian Peninsula (only an isolated occurrence in the Sierra de Gredos) through southern and eastern Europe , southeast France, the northwestern coastal areas of central Italy, then Istria (Slovenia and Croatia) 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.