Borbo cinnara

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]

Rice swift
Scientific classification
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

Description

For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

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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  Borbo cinnara

References

1. Borbo at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera , Some Other Life Forms
2. 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.
3. Borbo cinnara CABI datasheet
4. Hsu, Yu-Feng. "Borbo cinnara (Wallace, 1866)". Catalogue of life in Taiwan. Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
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.
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.

External links

• Australian butterflies

• Media related to Borbo cinnara at Wikimedia Commons