Borbo holtzi

241. Borbo holtzi (Plӧtz, 1883) WL: 16mm. This is a savanna skipper known to colonize degraded forest areas. It ranges from Senegal to Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, and along East Africa southwards to South Africa. As happens with most of the Borbo species, the caterpillars feed on Poaceae. Previous references. Regions: Biombo. Authors: Bacelar (1949) as Parnara fatuella, Larsen (2005), Mendes et al. (2007). Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: NF; CS: LC.Published as part of 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), pp. 1-77 in Zootaxa 4201 (1) on page 59, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4201.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/19221