Borbo fatuellus fatuellus ( Hopffer, 1855 )

Bivar-De-Sousa, António, Vasconcelos, Sasha, Mendes, Luís F., Larsen, Torben B., Baker, Jon & Guilherme, João L., 2016, Butterflies of Guinea-Bissau: VIII. New data, new reports, corrections and biodiversity (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea), Zootaxa 4201 (1), pp. 1-77 : 59

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4201.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3EB08193-954B-49BF-A989-1E73AC070E6B

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6068409

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A50287F3-FFD7-FFD9-FF0E-FF3FFC6EFE1D

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Plazi

scientific name

Borbo fatuellus fatuellus ( Hopffer, 1855 )
status

 

240. Borbo fatuellus fatuellus ( Hopffer, 1855)

WL: 19mm. B. fatuellus is one of the most common African skippers and is found in all types of forest, as well as dense savanna. Its nominate subspecies occurs throughout sub-Saharan Africa , deserts excluded. Two additional subspecies were described from the São Tomé and Príncipe and the Comoro Islands. Caterpillars feed on several Poaceae .

Previous references. Regions: Quinara. Authors: Bivar-de-Sousa & Mendes (1999) as Borbo borbonica, Larsen (2005) , Mendes et al. (2007).

Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: NF; CS: LC.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Hesperiidae

SubFamily

Hesperiinae

Genus

Borbo

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