Rice Swift
Borbo cinnara (Wallace, 1866) Mal ayalam Name : നാട്ടു ശരശലഭം Order : Lepidopte ra 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 cochi...