Borbo cinnara
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Borbo |
| Species: | B. cinnara
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| Borbo cinnara | |
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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]
Description
[edit]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
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Larva
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Pupa
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Imago
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Borbo cinnara
References
[edit]- ^ Borbo at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera , Some Other Life Forms
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Borbo cinnara CABI datasheet
- ^ Hsu, Yu-Feng. "Borbo cinnara (Wallace, 1866)". Catalogue of life in Taiwan. Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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.
External links
[edit]Media related to Borbo cinnara at Wikimedia Commons
