Borbo perobscura
| Small swift | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Borbo |
| Species: | B. perobscura |
| Binomial name | |
| Borbo perobscura | |
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Borbo perobscura, the small swift, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. The species was first described by Herbert Druce in 1912. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Burkina Faso[2], Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, São Tomé, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Shaba), southern Sudan, Uganda, Ethiopia, south-western Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and northern Zambia.[3] The habitat consists of savanna and degraded forests.
Adults are attracted to flowers.
References
Wikispecies has information related to Borbo perobscura.
- ↑ Savela, Markku (August 8, 2016). "Borbo perobscura (Druce, 1912)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved December 22, 2019.
- ↑ Tom Jamonneau, Abubakar S Ringim, Michel Libert, Andrea C Reyes Camargo, Alain Coache, Jérémy Bouyer, Annotated checklist of the butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Burkina Faso, West Africa—synthesis and new occurrences, Journal of Insect Science, Volume 26, Issue 3, May 2026, ieag018, https://doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/ieag018
- ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae