Azanus isis
{{Short description|Species of butterfly}}
{{Speciesbox
| name= White-banded babul blue
| image = Azanus isis 2011-11-26 Niaouli.jpg
| image_caption = Niaouli forest in southern Benin
| image2 = SeitzGrossschmett13Plate73, Azanus isis.jpg
| taxon = Azanus isis
| authority = (Drury, 1773)[http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/lycaenidae/polyommatinae/azanus/index.html Azanus] at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
| 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
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.{{Cite web |url= http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/lycaenidae_polyommatini_1.doc |title=Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Tribe Polyommatini (part 1) |access-date=2012-07-10 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131213021126/http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/lycaenidae_polyommatini_1.doc |archive-date=2013-12-13 |url-status=dead }} 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).{{Cite journal |last=Larsen |first=T.B. |date=2009 |title=Azanisis Kemal, 2004- a junior synonym of Azanus Moore, 1881 (Lepidoptera: Lycaedinae |url=https://www.lepsoc.org/ |journal=Metamorphosis |publisher=The Lepidopterists' Society of Africa |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=40-41}}
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Category:Butterflies described in 1773