rice swift, Formosan swift
Borbo cinnara
-2.563, 140.504
Field Notes
Description:
The rice swift is a skipper or skipper butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. Skippers are named after their quick, darting flight habits. There are more than 3500 recognized species of skippers and they occur worldwide, but with the greatest diversity in the Neotropics. This specimen exhibits the stockier body type that characterizes the family. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skipper_%28butterfly%29
Habitat:
Spotted on Madagascar periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) in a large semi-urban yard & garden adjacent to a disturbed patch of remnant forest.
Notes:
Found on the Papua list here http://www.papua-insects.nl/insect%20orders/Lepidoptera/Hesperiidae/Hes…
Species ID Suggestions
The Bevan Swift
Barbo bevani
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Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedApril 3, 2013
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