Borbo

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.

Borbo
Borbo cinnara
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Tribe:	Baorini
Genus:	Borbo Evans, 1949
Species
See text

Species

Borbo impar

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

• Data related to Borbo at Wikispecies
• Media related to Borbo at Wikimedia Commons
• Borbo at funet