Borbo cinnara

Last updated

Rice swift
Borbo cinnara (Rice swift) on a leaf.jpg
Scientific classification Red Pencil Icon.png
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Borbo
Species:
B. cinnara
Binomial name
Borbo cinnara
(Wallace, 1866) [1]
Synonyms
  • Hesperia cinnaraWallace, 1866
  • Hesperia colacaMoore, 1877
  • Parnara cingalaMoore, [1881]
  • Hesperia saturataWood-Mason & de Nicéville, 1882
  • Hesperia sarunaPlötz, 1885
  • Hesperia urejusPlötz, 1885
  • Parnara kuyanianaMatsumura, 1919

Borbo cinnara, commonly known as the rice swift, [2] Formosan swift or rice leaf folder, [3] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia, Taiwan, and Australia. [2] [4] [5]

Contents

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 [5]

Larvae are known to feed on Setaria barbata , Axonopus compressus , Rottboellia cochinchinensis and Brachiaria mutica . [6]

Life history

Related Research Articles

<i>Celaenorrhinus ambareesa</i> Species of butterfly

Celaenorrhinus ambareesa, the Malabar spotted flat, is a butterfly of the hesperiid family found in India.

<i>Baoris farri</i> Species of butterfly

Baoris farri, commonly known as the paintbrush swift, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is found in India.

<i>Baracus vittatus</i> Species of butterfly

Baracus vittatus, the hedge-hopper, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is found in India and Sri Lanka.

<i>Borbo bevani</i> Species of butterfly

Borbo bevani, the Beavan's swift, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is named after Captain Robert Cecil Beavan. It is found throughout India.

<i>Caltoris canaraica</i> Species of butterfly

Caltoris canaraica, the Kanara swift, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.

<i>Caltoris kumara</i> Species of butterfly

Caltoris kumara, the blank swift, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.

<i>Caltoris philippina</i> Species of butterfly

Caltoris philippina, the Philippine swift, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.

<i>Matapa aria</i> Species of butterfly

Matapa aria, the common redeye, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae found in India and Southeast Asia.

<i>Pelopidas agna</i> Species of butterfly

Pelopidas agna, the obscure branded swift or dark branded swift, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae found in India.

<i>Pelopidas mathias</i> Species of butterfly

Pelopidas mathias, the dark small-branded swift, small branded swift, lesser millet skipper or black branded swift, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is found throughout much of south, southeast and East Asia, and as far as the Philippines. It is also present in tropical Africa and Arabia.

<i>Pelopidas subochracea</i> Species of butterfly

Pelopidas subochracea, the large branded swift, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae found in India.

<i>Sovia hyrtacus</i> Species of butterfly

Sovia hyrtacus, the bicolour ace or white-branded ace, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Western Ghats from Goa to Kerala.

<i>Suastus minuta</i> Species of butterfly

Suastus minuta, the small palm bob, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is found in the Indomalayan realm - south India, Sikkim to Burma, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Laos, Hainan, Vietnam and Malaya.

<i>Taractrocera ceramas</i> Species of butterfly

Taractrocera ceramas, commonly known as the Tamil grass dart, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is found from the Western Ghats to Mumbai, in the hills of southern India, in northeast India to northern Burma and in south-eastern China.

<i>Telicota colon</i> Species of butterfly

Telicota colon, commonly known as the pale palm dart or common palm dart, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae found in India to Australia.

<i>Thoressa sitala</i> Species of butterfly

Thoressa sitala, the Tamil ace or Sitala ace, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae found in south India.<

<i>Caprona agama</i> Species of butterfly

Caprona agama, the spotted angle, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is found from southern India to Myanmar and in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, southern China, Java and Sulawesi. The species was first described by Frederic Moore in 1857.

<i>Pseudocoladenia dan</i> Species of butterfly

Pseudocoladenia dan, the fulvous pied flat, is an Indomalayan butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae found in India to southeast Asia.

<i>Spialia galba</i> Species of butterfly

Spialia galba, the Indian grizzled skipper, is a hesperiid butterfly which is found in South Asia and parts of Southeast Asia.

<i>Thoressa honorei</i> Species of butterfly

Thoressa honorei, commonly known as the Madras ace, is a skipper butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae found in south India.

References

  1. ↑ Borbo at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera , Some Other Life Forms
  2. 1 2 Varshney, R. K. & 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.
  3. ↑ Borbo cinnara CABI datasheet
  4. ↑ Hsu, Yu-Feng. "Borbo cinnara (Wallace, 1866)". Catalogue of life in Taiwan. Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  5. 1 2 Evans, W. H. (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.
  6. ↑ 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.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.