Borbo borbonica (Boisduval, 1833)

Delabye, Sylvain, Maicher, Vincent, Safian, Szabolcs, Potocky, Pavel, Mertens, Jan E. J., Przybylowicz, Lukasz, Murkwe, Mercy, Kobe, Ishmeal N., Fokam, Eric B., Janecek, Stepan & Tropek, Robert, 2020, First records of 31 species of butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) in Cameroon, with remarks on their elevational ranges, Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 50543-50543 : 50543

Borbo borbonica (Boisduval, 1833)

Hesperiidae , Hesperiinae

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Borboborbonica (Boisduval, 1833); Location: continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: Dikolo Peninsula, Bimbia-Bonadikombo Community Forest ; verbatimElevation: 30 m; decimalLatitude: 03.9818; decimalLongitude: 09.2625; Identification: identifiedBy: Szabolcs Sáfián; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: Butterfly net; eventDate: 30/12/2014; habitat: Coastal forest; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: http://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Borboborbonica (Boisduval, 1833); Location: continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: Crater Lake, Mount Cameroon ; verbatimElevation: 1,450 m; decimalLatitude: 04.1443; decimalLongitude: 09.0717; Identification: identifiedBy: Szabolcs Sáfián; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: Butterfly net; eventDate: 26/04/2017; habitat: Submontane forest locally disturbed by elephants; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: http://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

The nominotypical subspecies is relatively common in the Guinean biogeographic zone (most countries along the seashore between Mauritania and Nigeria) and from the Southern African region and Madagascar. Our Cameroonian record thus extended its distribution to the easternmost edge of the Guinean biogeographic zone. In the Mount Cameroon region, it was recorded from coastal (30 m a.s.l.) and submontane forests (1,450 m a.s.l.) (Fig. 28 ).

Figures

Figure 28. Borbo borbonica (Boisduval, 1833). A. dorsal view; B. ventral view. The scale bar represents 1 cm.