Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Hesperiidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Borbo | |
Similar Borbo borbonica, Baorini, Borbo | ||
Borbo fanta, the Fanta swift or twin-spot swift, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in the Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, south-western Kenya, Tanzania, central and northern Zambia, Mozambique, eastern Zimbabwe and northern Botswana. The habitat consists of savanna and degraded forests.
The larvae feed on Bambusa vulgaris.
References
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