Borbo lugens — The Life Data

Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Hesperiidae/Borbo

At a glance

Occurrence records429

Data sources7

Biological traits0

DNA specimens1

eDNA detections0

Sources7 archives

Databases and archives Borbo lugens's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation3 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility429 records↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics1 specimens↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗

GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗

On this page3 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Occurrence & distributionGBIF429 records

DNA & barcodingBOLD1 specimens

01Narrative

Borbo lugens, the lesser horned swift or lesser horned skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in eastern Africa and South Africa. The habitat consists of grassy clearings in dense woodland and forests.Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae The wingspan is 30–35 mm for males and 36–38 mm for females. Adults are on wing year-round, but are more common from October to May in southern Africa. The larvae feed on Ehrharta erecta, Setaria sulcata, Setaria megaphylla, Panicum (including Panicum deustrum), Stipa and Pennisetum species.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

No structured trait data for this taxon yet.

05DNA & barcoding1 specimens

A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Borbo lugens has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens1

BINs1

Marker genes1

Countries1

Marker genes sequenced

★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.

COI-5P

animal barcode

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type429 records

Wild obs. + sensor296

Museum / vouchered133

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO628 km²

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy89% within 1 km

≤100 m 83≤1 km 73≤10 km 19>10 km 1

176 georeferenced · 120 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor296

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy0% within 1 km

≤10 km 5>10 km 1

6 georeferenced · 127 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence133

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions3 of 10 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
African Butterfly Research Institutelocation not on record	45
Teylers Museumlocation not on record	41
Durban Natural Science Museumlocation not on record	22
New Haven, US	6
DNSMlocation not on record	5
National Museums of Kenyalocation not on record	4
Cape Town, ZA	3
Northern Michigan Universitylocation not on record	3
Iziko South African Museumlocation not on record	2
Sydney, AU	2

10 institutions · 133 of 133 vouchered records shown