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
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