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)

Borbo cinnara, commonly known as the Rice Swift or Formosan Swift, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.

Larvae are known to breed on Setaria barbata, Axonopus compressus, Rottboellia cochinchinensis and Brachiaria mutica.[1]

References

  1. ^ Kalesh, S & S K Prakash (2007). "Additions ot 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

Media related to [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Borbo_cinnara Borbo cinnara] at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Borbo cinnara at Wikispecies