Borbo holtzii

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Borbo holtzii
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as cana Lathy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Borbo
Species:
B. holtzii
Binomial name
Borbo holtzii
(Plötz, 1883) [1]
Synonyms
  • Hesperia holtziiPlötz, 1883
  • Pamphila auresMabille, 1883
  • Baoris canaLathy, 1901
  • Baoris caesiaGaede, 1917
  • Baoris aequalisGaede, 1917
  • Pelopidas rougeotiPicard, 1949

Borbo holtzii, the variable swift, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Africa, including south-eastern Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa (the Limpopo Province, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal) and Eswatini. The habitat consists of frost-free savanna. [2]

Adults are on wing year round, but are most common in winter.

The larvae feed on Rottboellia megaphylla .

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