Bevan's Rice Swift (also known as Borbo bevani) HESPERIINAE, HESPERIIDAE, HESPERIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
Drawing J. N. Fitch, in Charles Swinhoe :
Lepidoptera Indica, Volume 10, Plate 831, fig. 2,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library,
digitized by
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Library
The Caterpillars of this species are basically green. The head is black with a white curved stripe down each side. The caterpillars feed on various grasses and cereals from the Grass family POACEAE, including :
The caterpillar forms a shelter in a folded leaf of the foodplant. The caterpillar pupates in this shelter. The pupa is green, with pointed ends.
The adult butterflies are brown with a number of pale transparent spots on the forewings. The butterflies have a wingspam of about 3 cms.
This species occurs across south-east Asia including:
Identifications of specimens from Australia as this species are erroneous.
Further reading :
Michael F. Braby,
Butterflies of Australia,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 2000, vol. 1, p. 248.
Frederic Moore,
Descriptions of new Asiatic Hesperidae,
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London,
1878, Part 3, p. 688.
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(updated 3 September 2001, 2 March 2017, 30 May 2020)