Borbo perobscura Druce 1912

[Borbo perobscura (H. H. Druce)]
Parnara perobscura H. H. Druce, 1912: 504 (Addah, West Africa).
= Parnara gemina Gaede, 1916: 126 (Cameroon).
= Parnara gemina ab. "trigemina" Gaede, 1916: 126 (Togo).
= Parnara detecta karschi Aurivillius, 1925 [1908-1925]: 537 (Togo).
= Parnara falarus Aurivillius, 1925 [1908-1925]: 537 (Mabille ms. name).
Evans (1937: 182) suggests that this rather variable species is common from Sierra Leone to Cameroon and east to Bahr-el-Ghazal. Kenya and Tanganyika, but the series from Gabon in Carnegie Museum does not suggest this. So far it is unrecorded from Liberia, but it is expected to be found there.

Borbo perobscura, the small swift, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. The species was first described by Herbert Druce in 1912. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, São Tomé, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Shaba), southern Sudan, Uganda, Ethiopia, south-western Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and northern Zambia. The habitat consists of savanna and degraded forests.

Adults are attracted to flowers.