Biology:Borbo cinnara

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Short description: Species of butterfly

Rice swift
Borbo cinnara (Rice swift) on a leaf.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
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,[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

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.

Larvae are known to feed on Setaria barbata, Axonopus compressus, Rottboellia cochinchinensis and Brachiaria mutica.[6]

Life history

  • Larva

  • Pupa

  • Imago

  • Imago

  • Borbo cinnara

References

  1. ↑ Borbo at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera , Some Other Life Forms
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Varshney, R. K.; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. pp. 56. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287980260. 
  3. ↑ Borbo cinnara CABI datasheet
  4. ↑ Hsu, Yu-Feng. "Borbo cinnara (Wallace, 1866)". Catalogue of life in Taiwan. Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. https://taibnet.sinica.edu.tw/eng/taibnet_species_detail.php?name_code=345455. 
  5. ↑ 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. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/187283#page/460/mode/1up. 
  6. ↑ 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. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/306314470. 

External links


Wikidata ☰ Q1317919 entry



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