Borbo cinnara

Rice Swift

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Borbo
Species:	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

Borbo cinnara, commonly known as the Rice Swift or Formosan Swift, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Sri Lanka, India, Burma, Vietnam and Australia.

Larvae are known to feed on Setaria barbata, Axonopus compressus, Rottboellia cochinchinensis and Brachiaria mutica.^[2]

in Kawal Wildlife Sanctuary, India
at Ananthagiri Hills, in Ranga Reddy district of Andhra Pradesh, India
at Ananthagiri Hills
Udupi,Karnataka

References

↑ Borbo at funet.fi
↑ 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". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 104 (2): 235–238.

External links

Australian butterflies

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