Borbo fatuellus

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Kingdom Animalia Family Hesperiidae Scientific name Borbo fatuellus Rank Species		Class Insecta Genus Borbo Phylum Arthropoda Order Butterflies and moths
Similar Borbo, Euchrysops malathana, Tagiades flesus, Gegenes niso, Hypolycaena philippus

Borbo fatuellus, the long horned swift, long horned skipper or foolish swift, is a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It is found in tropical Africa and south-western Arabia. The habitat consists of wet forests, moist woodland and coastal bush.

The wingspan is 33–42 mm for males and 40–43 mm for females. Adults are on wing year-round, but are more common from October to May in southern Africa.

The larvae feed on Ehrharta erecta, Setaria sulcata, Setaria megaphylla, Imperata cylindrica, Pennisetum, Panicum and Digitaria species.

Subspecies

Borbo fatuellus fatuellus (Sub-Saharan Africa, including Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, northern Botswana, northern Namibia, Swaziland, Yemen, South Africa: coastal lowland forests and wooded Savannah from the East Cape to Swaziland and along the coast to northern KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and the Limpopo Province and the further north)

Borbo fatuellus dolens (Mabille, 1898) (Comoro Islands)

Borbo fatuellus thomea (Evans, 1937) (São Tomé and Príncipe)

References

Borbo fatuellus Wikipedia

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