Azanus isis

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.

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.

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).

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