Borbo cinnara
Rice swift | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Borbo |
Species: | B. cinnara
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Binomial name | |
Borbo cinnara | |
Synonyms | |
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Borbo cinnara, commonly known as the rice swift[2] or Formosan swift, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Sri Lanka, India, Burma, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Australia.[2][3]
Description[]
Above thorax and bases with inconspicuous greenish clothing. Usually upperside forewing with a conspicuous non-hyaline spot in space 1b, discal series in spaces 2, 3, 4 and apical dots in spaces 6, 7, 8, as well as an upper cell spot. Upperside hindwing with I or 2 dots. Underside hindwing with olive-ochreous scaling and spots in spaces 2, 3, 6. F 15-16 mm.
— William Harry Evans, A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia, and Australia in the British Museum[3]
Larvae are known to feed on Setaria barbata, Axonopus compressus, Rottboellia cochinchinensis and Brachiaria mutica.[4]
Life history[]
Larva
Pupa
Imago
Imago
Borbo cinnara
References[]
- ^ Borbo at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera , Some Other Life Forms
- ^ a b R.K., Varshney; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. p. 56. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9.
- ^ a b W. H., Evans (1949). A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia, and Australia in the British Museum. London: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Entomology. pp. 436–437.
- ^ Kalesh, S & S K Prakash (2007). "Additions of the larval host plants of butterflies of the Western Ghats, Kerala, Southern India (Rhopalocera, Lepidoptera): Part 1". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 104 (2): 235–238.
External links[]
- Media related to Borbo cinnara at Wikimedia Commons
- Data related to Borbo cinnara at Wikispecies
Categories:
- Hesperiinae
- Butterflies of Asia
- Butterflies described in 1866
- Butterflies of Indochina
- Butterflies of Australia
- Taxa named by Alfred Russel Wallace
- Hesperiinae stubs