Biology:Borbo

Short description: Genus of butterflies

Borbo
Borbo cinnara
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Tribe:	Baorini
Genus:	Borbo Evans, 1949
Species
See text

Borbo is a genus of skipper butterflies (family Hesperiidae). They belong to the tribe Baorini, and as such are among those skippers commonly known as swifts.

Species

Borbo impar

Species (and some subspecies) include:

• Borbo binga (Evans, 1937)
• Borbo borbonica Boisduval, 1833
• Borbo chagwa (Evans, 1937)
• Borbo cinnara (Wallace, 1866) – rice swift, Formosan swift
• Borbo detecta (Trimen, 1893)
• Borbo fallax (Gaede, 1916)
• Borbo fanta (Evans, 1937)
• Borbo fatuellus (Hopffer, 1855)
• Borbo ferruginea (Aurivillius, 1925)
• Borbo gemella (Mabille, 1884)
• Borbo havei (Boisduval, 1833)
• Borbo holtzii (Plötz, 1883)
• Borbo impar (Mabille, 1883)
  • Borbo impar impar
  • Borbo impar lavinia (Waterhouse, 1932)
  • Borbo impar tetragaphus (Mabille, 1891)
• Borbo kaka (Evans, 1938)
• Borbo liana (Evans, 1937)
• Borbo lugens (Hopffer, 1855)
• Borbo micans (Holland, 1896)
• Borbo perobscura (Druce, 1912)
• Borbo ratek (Boisduval, 1833)
• Borbo sirena (Evans, 1937)

Species of unknown status

• Borbo philippina
• Borbo toshieae Maruyama, 1991

References

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

External links

• Borbo at funet

Wikidata ☰ Q1358889 entry