Borbo fanta

{{Short description|Species of butterfly}} {{Speciesbox | image = | image2 = | taxon = Borbo fanta | authority = (Evans, 1937)<ref>[http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/hesperiinae/borbo/index.html ''Borbo''] at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''</ref> | synonyms = *''Pelopidas fanta'' <small>Evans, 1937</small> *''Pelopidas fanta barnesi'' <small>Evans, 1949</small> }}

'''''Borbo fanta''''', the '''Fanta swift''' or '''twin-spot swift''', is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in the Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, south-western Kenya, Tanzania, central and northern Zambia, Mozambique, eastern Zimbabwe and northern Botswana.<ref name=ATBUT>[http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/hesperiidae_hesperiinae_2.doc Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae]</ref> The habitat consists of savanna and degraded forests.

The larvae feed on ''Bambusa vulgaris''.

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Category:Butterflies described in 1937 fanta Category:Butterflies of Africa Category:Taxa named by William Harry Evans