Borbo holtzii

Borbo holtzii, the variable swift, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Africa, including south-eastern Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa (the Limpopo Province, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal) and Eswatini. The habitat consists of frost-free savanna.^[2]

Phylum:Arthropoda

Clade:Pancrustacea

Class:Insecta

Order:Lepidoptera

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Borbo holtzii
as cana Lathy
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Borbo
Species:	B. holtzii
Binomial name
Borbo holtzii (Plötz, 1883)[1]
Synonyms
Hesperia holtzii Plötz, 1883 Pamphila aures Mabille, 1883 Baoris cana Lathy, 1901 Baoris caesia Gaede, 1917 Baoris aequalis Gaede, 1917 Pelopidas rougeoti Picard, 1949

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Adults are on wing year round, but are most common in winter.

The larvae feed on Rottboellia megaphylla.