Borbo fanta

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Borbo fanta
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Borbo
Species:
B. fanta
Binomial name
Borbo fanta
(Evans, 1937) [1]
Synonyms
  • Pelopidas fantaEvans, 1937
  • Pelopidas fanta barnesiEvans, 1949

Borbo fanta, the Fanta swift or twin-spot swift, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in the Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, south-western Kenya, Tanzania, central and northern Zambia, Mozambique, eastern Zimbabwe and northern Botswana. [2] The habitat consists of savanna and degraded forests.

The larvae feed on Bambusa vulgaris .

References

  1. Borbo at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae