Rice Swift

 Borbo cinnara (Wallace, 1866)


Malayalam Name

:

നാട്ടു ശരശലഭം

Order

:

Lepidoptera

Family

:

Hesperiidae

Sub-family

:

Hesperiinae

Sub species

:

Halpe porus 

common names

:

Rice Swift / Formosan swift / rice leaf folder

DISTRIBUTION : India to Australia

STATUS: Common

HABITAT: . 


HABITS


IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES

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.

SIMILAR SPECIES

LARVAL HOST PLANTS 

Andropogon spp., Arundo donax, Axonopus compressus, Brachiaria mutica (=Urochloa mutica), Cymbopogon spp., Eragrostis spp., Ischaemum spp., Oryza spp., Oryza sativa, Pennisetum spp., Pennisetum glaucum (=Cenchrus americanus), Phragmites karka, Rottboellia cochinchinensis, Setaria barbata, Setaria pumila (=Setaria glauca), Setaria verticillata, Sorghum bicolor (=Sorghum vulgare), Sorghum halepense, Sorghum nitidum, Stenotaphrum dimidiatum, Stenotaphrum secundatum, Urochloa setigera (Abhishek Rane pers. obs. 2023) (Poaceae).

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Write up:Wikipaedia
Images: TNHS & iFoundbutterfly.org

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