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Azanus isis

Species of butterfly

Species of butterfly

  • Papilio isis Drury, 1773
  • Azanus (Azanisis) isis
  • Papilio caeruleoalbus Goeze, 1779
  • Papilio camillus Cramer, 1780
  • Hesperia isarchus Fabricius, 1793

Azanus isis, the white-banded babul blue, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae which is native to the tropics and subtropics of sub-Saharan Africa.

Range and habitat

It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, southern Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the DRC, Uganda, Ethiopia, north-western Tanzania and northern Zambia. The habitat consists of forest edges and clearings, woodland and moist savanna.

Taxonomic revisions

A. isis was previously designated as a type species in the subgenus Azanisis (Kemal, 2004), which is now considered a junior subjective synonym of Azanus (Moore, 1881).

References

References

  1. [http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/lycaenidae/polyommatinae/azanus/index.html ''Azanus''] at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
  2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Tribe Polyommatini (part 1)".
  3. Larsen, T.B.. (2009). "Azanisis Kemal, 2004- a junior synonym of Azanus Moore, 1881 (Lepidoptera: Lycaedinae". The Lepidopterists' Society of Africa.
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