Iolaus paneperata

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| image = Paneperata inDruce1902.jpg

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Larsen, T.B. |date=2011 |title=Iolaus paneperata |volume=2011 |page=e.T160159A5353596 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T160159A5353596.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}

| taxon = Iolaus paneperata

| authority = H. H. Druce, 1890{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |date=September 6, 2018 |url=https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/lycaenidae/theclinae/iolaus/#paneperata |title=Iolaus paneperata Druce, 1890 |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |access-date=December 16, 2019}}

| synonyms = *Iolaus (Philiolaus) paneperata

• Jolaus elisa Suffert, 1904

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Iolaus paneperata, the parallel sapphire, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. The species was first described by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1890. It is found in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria (south and the Cross River loop), Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa and possibly Kwango).{{Cite web |url=http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/lycaenidae_iolaina.doc |title=Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Subtribe Iolaina |access-date=2012-08-31 |archive-date=2014-04-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407084404/http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/lycaenidae_iolaina.doc |url-status=dead }}

The larvae feed on the flowers of Loranthus incanus and Phragmanthera capitata. They are green and resemble the flowers on which they feed.