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Azanus isis

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White-banded babul blue
Niaouli forest in southern Benin
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Azanus
Species:
A. isis
Binomial name
Azanus isis
(Drury, 1773)[1]
Synonyms
  • 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

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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.[2] The habitat consists of forest edges and clearings, woodland and moist savanna.

Taxonomic revisions

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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).[3]

References

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  1. ^ Azanus at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
  2. ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Tribe Polyommatini (part 1)". Archived from the original on 2013-12-13. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
  3. ^ Larsen, T.B. (2009). "Azanisis Kemal, 2004- a junior synonym of Azanus Moore, 1881 (Lepidoptera: Lycaedinae". Metamorphosis. 20 (1). The Lepidopterists' Society of Africa: 40–41.
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