Azanus isis explained

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.[1] 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).[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Tribe Polyommatini (part 1) . 2012-07-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131213021126/http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/lycaenidae_polyommatini_1.doc . 2013-12-13 . dead .
  2. Larsen . T.B. . 2009 . Azanisis Kemal, 2004- a junior synonym of Azanus Moore, 1881 (Lepidoptera: Lycaedinae . Metamorphosis . The Lepidopterists' Society of Africa . 20 . 1 . 40-41.