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The Long Horned Swift, Long Horned Skipper or Foolish Swift (''Borbo fatuellus'') is a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It is found in tropical Africa and south-western Arabia. The habitat consists of wet forests, moist woodland and coastal bush. The wingspan is 33–42 mm for males and 40–43 mm for females. Adults are on wing year round, but are more common from October to May in southern Africa.〔Woodhall, S. Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 2005.〕 The larvae feed on ''Ehrharta erecta'', ''Setaria sulcata'', ''Setaria megaphylla'', ''Imperata cylindrica'', ''Pennisetum'', ''Panicum'' and ''Digitaria'' species. ==Subspecies== *''Borbo fatuellus fatuellus'' (Sub-Saharan Africa, including Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, northern Botswana, northern Namibia, Swaziland, Yemen, South Africa: coastal lowland forests and wooded Savannah from the East Cape to Swaziland and along the coast to northern KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and the Limpopo Province and the further north) *''Borbo fatuellus dolens'' (Mabille, 1898) (Comoro Islands) *''Borbo fatuellus thomea'' (Evans, 1937) (São Tomé and Príncipe) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Borbo fatuellus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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