Borbo perobscura

Small swift
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Borbo
Species: B. perobscura
Binomial name
Borbo perobscura
(Druce, 1912)[1]
Synonyms
  • Parnara perobscura Druce, 1912
  • Parnara gemina Gaede, 1916
  • Parnara trigemina Gaede, 1916
  • Parnara detecta f. karschi Aurivillius, 1925
  • Borbo falarus Mabille; Aurivillius, 1925

Borbo perobscura, the small swift, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Sao Tome, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Shaba), southern Sudan, Uganda, Ethiopia, south-western Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and northern Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of savanna and degraded forests.

Adults are attracted to flowers.

References

  1. ↑ Borbo at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae


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