Azanus isis

Species of butterfly

White-banded babul blue

Niaouli forest in southern Benin
Scientific 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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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Azanus isis.

Wikispecies has information related to Azanus isis.

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.

Taxon identifiers

Azanus isis|

* Wikidata: Q4832234
* Wikispecies: Azanus isis
* CoL: 67YMT
* EoL: 267103
* GBIF: 1926551
* iNaturalist: 149225
* Insecta.pro: 51022
* IRMNG: 10618110
* IUCN: 159781
* LepIndex: 201914
* Open Tree of Life: 3145059

Papilio isis|

* Wikidata: Q109585127
* GBIF: 10950827