This species, formerly considered a subspecies of mallow skipper, flies in North Africa and the southern, coastal strip of Iberia. It is not reliably separable from the mallow skipper by appearance alone and is very similar in ecology and behaviour too. However, recent books suggest that the two species do not overlap - or if they do, only in a very narrow region. The photographs above were taken just south of Antequera and in Málaga, so clearly within the geographical zone of the false mallow skipper and outside that of mallow skipper. I have no other grounds for believing them to be of the present species, as I do not kill butterflies to identify them. The genitalia are distinct.

Mallow skippers are polyvoltine, flying from spring to autumn, and I believe this is true of false mallow skippers too. The searing heat of the Andalusian summer may influence voltinism, though in August 2020 I found this was one of the few butterflies that perched in the sun even in the heat of the day. They hibernate as larvae.