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]

References

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