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.

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

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.^[2] 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).^[3]