Borbo cinnara

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]

Rice swift
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B. cinnara
Binomial name
Borbo cinnara
(Wallace, 1866)[1]
Synonyms
  • Hesperia cinnara Wallace, 1866
  • Hesperia colaca Moore, 1877
  • Parnara cingala Moore, [1881]
  • Hesperia saturata Wood-Mason & de Nicéville, 1882
  • Hesperia saruna Plötz, 1885
  • Hesperia urejus Plötz, 1885
  • Parnara kuyaniana Matsumura, 1919

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

References

  1. Borbo at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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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