Borbo

Borbo Evans, 1949 Swifts

Borbo Evans, 1949; Cat. Hesp. Europe Asia Australia Brit. Mus.: 44, 436, no. M.3; TS: Hesperia borbonica Boisduval

Borbo (Hesperiinae); [BK], 432; [AfrL]; Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003, Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 76

Borbo lugens (Hopffer, 1855)

E.Africa - S.Africa. See [maps] Lesser Horned Swift

Pamphila lugens Hopffer, 1855; Ber. Verh. Akad. Berlin 1855: 643; TL: Mozambique
?Suastus plana Swinhoe, 1915; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 16 (93): 176; TL: Humboldt Bay, New Guinea
- = ?; [NHM card]

Borbo lugens; [BOW]: pl. 128, f. 28; [BK]: 433, pl. 64, f. 858; [AfrL]

Borbo fatuellus (Hopffer, 1855)

Tropical Africa, SW.Arabia. See [maps] Long Horned Swift Foolish Swift

Pamphila fatuellus Hopffer, 1855; Ber. Verh. Akad. Berlin 1855: 643; TL: Mozambique
Baoris[sic] cinerea Evans, 1937; Cat. African Hesp. Brit. Mus.: 177
?Pamphila cinerea Holland, 1892; ?? 66 [dry-season]

Borbo fatuellus; [BOW]: pl. 128, f. 25; [AfrL]

B. f. fatuellus

Borbo fatuellus fatuellus; [BK]: 432, pl. 64, f. 856; [AfrL]

B. f. dolens (Mabille, 1898)

Borbo fatuellus dolens; [AfrL]

B. f. thomea (Evans, 1937)

Borbo fatuellus thomea; [AfrL]

Borbo kaka (Evans, 1938)

Uganda (Kakamega), W.Tanzania. See [maps] Kakamega Swift

Baoris kaka Evans, 1938; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (11) 1: 314

Borbo kaka; [BK]: 433, pl. 64, f. 857; [AfrL]

Borbo fallax (Gaede, 1916)

Tropical Africa. See [maps] False Swift

Parnara fallax Gaede, 1916; Int. ent. Zs. 9 (24): 126

Borbo fallax; [BOW]: pl. 128, f. 24; [BK]: 433, pl. 64, f. 859; [AfrL]

Borbo sirena (Evans, 1937)

Zaire, NE.Zimbabwe, Uganda, W.Kenya. See [maps]

Borbo sirena; [BK]: 433, pl. 64, f. 860; [AfrL]

Borbo perobscura (Druce, 1912)

W.Africa - E.Africa. See [maps]

Borbo perobscura; [BOW]: pl. 128, f. 30; [BK]: 434, pl. 64, f. 861; [AfrL]

Borbo fanta (Evans, 1937)

-. See [maps]

Borbo fanta; [AfrL]

B. f. fanta

Borbo fanta fanta; [BK]: 499

B. f. barnesi (Evans, 1949) Rhodesia

Pelopidas fanta barnesi Evans, 1949; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (12) 2: 56

Borbo detecta (Trimen, 1893)

S.Africa - to (E.Africa - Zaire). See [maps]

Pamphila detecta Trimen, 1893; Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1893 (2): 141

Borbo detecta; [BOW]: pl. 128, f. 23; [BK]: 434, pl. 64, f. 862; [AfrL]

Borbo micans (Holland, 1896)

Tropical Africa. See [maps] Marsh Swift

Parnara micans Holland, 1896; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1896 (1): 63

Borbo micans; [BOW]: pl. 128, f. 29; [BK]: 434, pl. 64, f. 863; [AfrL]

Borbo ferruginea (Aurivillius, 1925)

Mazambique - Kenya. See [maps] Ferruginous Swift

Borbo ferruginea; [BK]: 434, pl. 64, f. 864; [AfrL]

B. f. ferruginea

Borbo ferruginea ferruginea; [AfrL]

B. f. dondo Evans, 1955 Moçambique, Zululand

Borbo ferruginea dondo Evans, 1955; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (12) 8: 885

Borbo ferruginea dondo; [AfrL]

Borbo chagwa (Evans, 1937)

Moçambique, Uganda. See [maps]

Pelopidas chagwa Evans, 1937; Cat. African Hesp. Brit. Mus.: 183

Borbo chagwa; [BOW]: pl. 128, f. 23 (text); [AfrL]

Borbo borbonica (Boisduval, 1833)

SEU, Egypt, Syria, AF, Mauritius, Reunion, Natal, Transvaal, Orange Free State, South West Africa, Botswana. See [maps] Zeller's Skipper Olive Haired Swift Veloz fenestrada

Hesperia borbonica Boisduval, 1833; Nouv. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 2 (2): 213, pl. 9, f. 5-6
Hesperia borbonica Boisduval, 1833; Faun. ent. Madagascar, Lépid.: 65
Hesperia zelleri Lederer, 1855; Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 5: 194; TL: Syria
Pamphila borbonica-Holli Oberthür, 1910; Ètud. Lépid. Comp. 4: 363; TL: Hussein Dey (Algeria)

Borbo borbonica, Lepiforum [LEPIFORUM]
Borbo borbonica, Moths and Butterflies of Europe [MBE]

Borbo zelleri; [BOW]: pl. 207, f. 18
Borbo borbonica; [BOW]: pl. 128, f. 22; [BMAT]: 99, pl. 31, f. 62-66; [BK]: 435, pl. 64, f. 865; [AfrL]; [Otakar Kudrna]

B. b. borbonica Madagascar, ...?

Borbo borbonica borbonica; [MadL]; [AfrL]

B. b. morella (de Joannis, 1893)

Borbo borbonica morella; [AfrL]

Borbo gemella (Mabille, 1884)

Africa, Madagascar, SW.Arabia. See [maps] Twin Swift

Pamphila gemella Mabille, 1884; Bull. Soc. ent. Belg. 28: clxxxvii; TL: Madagascar

Borbo gemella; [BOW]: pl. 128, f. 26; [BK]: 435, pl. 64, f. 866; [MadL]; [AfrL]

Borbo havei (Boisduval, 1833)

Madagascar. See [maps]

Hesperia havei Boisduval, 1833

Borbo havei; [MadL]; [AfrL]

Borbo holtzii (Plötz, 1883)

Africa. See [maps] Variable Swift

Hesperia holtzii Plötz, 1883; Stett. ent. Ztg 44 (1-3): 44

Borbo holtzii; [BOW]: pl. 128, f. 27; [BK]: 435, pl. 64, f. 867
Borbo holtzi; [AfrL]

Borbo ratek (Boisduval, 1833)

Madagascar. See [maps]

Thymele ratek Boisduval, 1833; Faun. ent. Madagascar, Lépid.: 61; TL: Madagascar
Pamphila sinnis Mabille, 1878; Petites Nouvelles ent. 2 (210): 285; TL: Madagascar
- = ; [NHM card]

Borbo ratek; [BOW]: pl. 128, f. 31; [MadL]; [AfrL]

Borbo binga (Evans, 1937)

Baoris binga Evans, 1937; Cat. African Hesp. Brit. Mus.: 178

Borbo binga; [AfrL]

Borbo impar (Mabille, 1883)

N.Australia. See [maps]

Pamphila impar Mabille, 1883; Bull. Soc. Ent. Belg. 27: lxvi
Carystus tetragraphus Mabille, 1891; Bull. Soc. Ent. Belg. 35 (17): cxv; TL: "Amboine"
Parnara bipunctata Elwes & J. Edwards, 1897
Caltoris laraca Swinhoe, 1907; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7) 20 (119): 434; TL: Woodlark Island
Parnara bipunctata sidata Fruhstorfer, 1911; Dt. ent. Z. Iris 25 (4): 52; TL: Buru
Polytremis contigualis Rothschild, 1915
Baoris lavinia Waterhouse, 1932
Pelopidas lavella Evans, 1937

Borbo impar, Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia [Don Herbison-Evans]

Baoris laraca; Rothschild, 1915, Novit. Zool. 22 (3): 400
Borbo impar tetragraphus;

B. i. impar New Caledonia

Borboa impar impar; Holloway & Peters, 1976, J. Nat. Hist. 10: 283

Borbo cinnara (Wallace, 1866)

Ceylon, India, Burma, Vietnam, AU. See [maps] Rice Swift Formosan Swift

Hesperia cinnara Wallace, 1866; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1866 (2): 361; TL: Formosa
Hesperia colaca Moore, 1877; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1877 (3): 594, pl. 58, f. 7
Parnara cingala Moore, [1881]; Lepid. Ceylon 1 (4): 167, pl. 70, f. 3a-b; TL: Ceylon?
Hesperia saturata Wood-Mason & de Nicéville, 1882
Hesperia saruna Plötz, 1885
Hesperia urejus Plötz, 1885
Parnara kuyaniana Matsumura, 1919

Borbo cinnara, Butterflies in Indo-China [Yutaka Inayoshi]
Borbo cinnara, Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia [Don Herbison-Evans]

Hesperia colaca; Wood-Mason & de Nicéville, 1881, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 49 Pt.II (4): 241
Borbo cinnara; [BIR], 486; Holloway & Peters, 1976, J. Nat. Hist. 10: 283; [BOW]: pl. 185, f. 21 (text); [MRS], 726; [BMP]: 386, pl. 60, f. 6; Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003, Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 76

Misidentified/misapplied:

?Baoris zelleri; [BIR], 486

Borbo liana (Evans, 1937)

Pelopidas[?] liana Evans, 1937; Cat. African Hesp. Brit. Mus.: 179, 183

Borbo liana; [AfrL]

?Borbo toshieae Maruyama, 1991²

?Borbo philippina

Ceylon, Nilgiris, Coorg, N.Kanara, Sikkim. See [maps] Philippine Swift

Baoris philippina

?Baoris philippina; [BIR], 485

References:

[AfrL] Mark C. Williams
Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperoidea; Compiled by Mark C. Williams, 7th ed. (2008) (April 2007); Afrototropical Butterflies; e-mail: Mark C. Williams
[Don Herbison-Evans] and Stella A. Crossley
Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia; e-mail: Don Herbison-Evans; e-mail: Don Herbison-Evans
[LAMAS-2005] Gerardo Lamas
Entomofauna 26 (6): 57-100; A Bibliography of the Zoological Publications of Hans Fruhstorfer (1886* - 1922+)
[LEPIFORUM]
Lepiforum; Bestimmung von Schmetterlingen (Lepidoptera) und ihren Präimaginalstadien
[MBE] Moths and Butteflies of Europe
Paolo Mazzei, Diego Reggianti and Ilaria Pimpinelli; http://www.leps.it/
[NHM] Natural History Museum
The Global Lepidoptera Names Index; Butterflies and Moths of the World; Generic Names and their Type-species
[Yutaka Inayoshi]
A Check List of Butterflies in Indo-China; Chiefly from THAILAND, LAOS & VIETNAM
[maps]
Warning! The maps are automatically generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.
[²] This may require parentheses or not. I don't have the necessary information for this taxon.

Some related literature:

Boisduval, 1833
[Mémoire sur les Lépidoptères de Madagascar, Bourbon et Maurice] Nouv. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 2 (2) : 149-270
Boisduval, 1833
Faune Entomologique de Madagascar, Bourbon et Maurice. Lépidoptéres Faun. ent. Madagascar, Lépid. : 1-122, pl. 1-16
[MRS]; Chou, 1994
Monografia Rhopalocerorum Sinensium 1-2: 1-854
[BMP]; Corbet & Pendlebury, 1992
The butterflies of the Malay Peninsula. Fourth Edition revised by J. N. Eliot with plates by Bernard D'Abrera Butterflies Malay Peninsula (4th edn) : 1-595, pl. 1-69
[PBSA]; Dickson & Kroon, 1978
Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa
K. L. & L. E. Dunn, 1991
Review of Australian Butterflies: distribution, life history and taxonomy. Pushlished by authors, Melbourne Review Austr. Butts. (1-4):
Evans, 1937
A catalogue of the African Hesperiidae. British Museum Cat. African Hesp. Brit. Mus. : 1-212, pl. 1-30
Evans, 1938
New African Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (11) 1 : 312-315
Evans, 1949
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Evans, 1949
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Evans, 1955
Revisional notes on African Hesperiidae Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (12) 8 : 881-885
Fruhstorfer, 1911
Neue Hesperiden des Indo-Malayischen Faunengebietes und Besprechung verwandter Formen Dt. ent. Z. Iris 25 (2): 9-24 (1 February), (3): 25-40 (1 March), (4): 41-56 (1 April), (5): 57-72 (1 May), (6): 73-79, pl. 1 (1 June)
Gaede, 1916
Neue Afrikanische Lepidoptera des Berliner Zoologisches Museums Int. ent. Zs. 9 (7): 38-40, (13): 71-72, (13): 73-74, (15): 79-80, pl. 1, (20): 105-106, (21): 109-112, (24): 125-126
Holland, 1896
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The butterflies of New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands J. Nat. Hist. 10 : 273-318
Hopffer, 1855
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The Butterflies of Kenya and their natural history Butterflies of Kenya
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Classification, Diversity and Endemism of the Butterflies (Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea): A Revised Species Checklist in Goodman & Benstead, Nat. Hist. Madagascar : 762-793
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Diagnoses de Lépidoptères de Madagascar Petites Nouvelles ent. 2 (178): 157-158, (210): 285 (1878), (211): 289-290 (1879)
Mabille, 1883
Description d'hespériens Bull. Soc. Ent. Belg. 27 : li-lxxviii
Mabille, 1884
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Rothschild, 1915
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Swinhoe, 1915
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[BMAT]; Tennent, 1996
The Butterflies of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia : 1-217
Trimen, 1893
On some new or imperfectly-known species of South African butterflies Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1893 (2) : 123-143, pl. 8
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[BIR]; Wynter-Blyth, 1957
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