Borbo cinnara

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Rice swift
Borbo cinnara (Rice swift) on a leaf.jpg
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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]

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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

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.
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