Azanus

Azanus Moore, [1881] Babul Blues

Azanus Moore, [1881] (Lycaenidae); Lepid. Ceylon 1 (2): 79; TS: Papilio ubaldus Stoll

Azanus; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [NHM-BMW]
Azanus (Section Azanus); Eliot, 1973, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6): 448
Azanus (Azanina); Stradomsky, 2016, Caucasian Ent. Bull. 12 (1): 151
Azanus (Everini); Clench, 1965, Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc. 19: 395
Azanus (Lycaenidae); Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 250
Azanus (Polyommatini); [BK], 240; [AfrL]; [FE]

Azanus urios Riley & Godfrey, 1921

Burma, Thailand, Laos. See [maps]

Azanus urios Riley & Godfrey, 1921; J. nat. Hist. Soc. Siam 4 (3): 182, pl. 6, f. 5; TL: Phrae, N.Thailand

Azanus urios; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [Yutaka Inayoshi]

Azanus ubaldus (Stoll, [1782])

Arabia - India, Ceylon, Kashmir, S.Africa - E.Africa - Senegal, Somalia, Tunisia. See [maps] Bright Babul Blue Desert Babul Blue

Papilio ubaldus Stoll, [1782]; in Cramer, Uitl. Kapellen 4 (32-32): 209, pl. 390, f. L, M; TL: India
Lycaena zena Moore, 1865; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1865 (2): 505, pl. 31, f. 9; TL: plains of N.W.India
- = ; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 252
Lycaena ethoda Walker, 1870; Entomologist 5 (76): 53; TL: Cairo
- = ; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 252; [AfrL]
Lycaena itea Walker, 1870; Entomologist 5 (76): 55; TL: Cairo
- = ; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 252; [AfrL]
Lycaena macalenga Trimen, 1870; Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1870 (4): 364, pl. 6, f. 5-6
- = ; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 252; [AfrL]
Lycaena thebana Staudinger, [1895]; Dt. Ent. Z. Iris 7 (2): 244, pl. 9, f. 3; TL: Cairo
- = ; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 252; [AfrL]

Azanus (Azanus) ubaldus; [AfrL]
Azanus ubaldus; Clench, 1965, Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc. 19: 397; [BIR], 267; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 252; [PBSA]; [BOW]: pl. 174, f. 22; [BAFR], 551; [BK]: 240, pl. 25, f. 348; [BMAT]: 33, pl. 11, f. 1-4; [Otakar Kudrna]; [FE]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM] ; [MBE]
Cupido zena; [CoL]
Polymmatus ubaldus; Godart, [1824], Encyclopédie Méthodique 9 (2): 682

Azanus soalalicus (Karsch, 1900)

Madagascar. See [maps]

Cupido soalalicus Karsch, 1900; Ent. Nachr. 26 (24): 369; TL: W.Madagascar

Azanus (Azanus) soalalicus; [AfrL]
Azanus jesous soalalicus; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 252
Azanus soalalicus; [BAFR], 551; [MadL]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]

Azanus natalensis (Trimen & Bowker, 1887)

from (S.Africa - Ethiopia) - Nigeria. See [maps] Natal Babul Blue

Lycaena natalensis Trimen & Bowker, 1887; S-Afr. Butts 2: 77; TL: Natal; ?Delagoa Bay

Azanus (Azanus) natalensis; [AfrL]
Azanus natalensis; Clench, 1965, Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc. 19: 396; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 252; [BOW]: pl. 120, f. 46; [BAFR], 552; [BK]: 241, pl. 25, f. 352; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]

Azanus jesous (Guérin-Méneville, 1849)

AF, Egypt, Syria, Ceylon, India, Burma. See [maps] African Babul Blue

Polyommatus jesous Guérin-Méneville, 1849; Voy. Abyssinie: 383, (Atlas): pl. 11, f. 3-4; TL: Abyssinia
Lycaena gamra Lederer, 1855; Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 5: 189, pl. 1, f. 3
- = Azanus jesous jesous; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 252
Lampides agave Walker, 1870; Entomologist 5 (76): 53; TL: Hor Tamanib, Tajora
- = Azanus jesous jesous; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 252
- = ; [AfrL]
Lampides sigillata Butler, 1876; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (4) 18 (108): 483; TL: White Nile
- = Azanus moriqua; Clench, 1965, Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc. 19: 397; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 252
- = ; [AfrL]

Azanus (Azanus) jesous; [AfrL]
Azanus jesous gamra; [iNaturalist]
Azanus jesous jesous; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 252; [iNaturalist]
Azanus jesous; [BIR], 267; [H&R]; [PBSA]; [BOW]: pl. 120, f. 45, pl. 174, f. 19; [BAFR], 551; [BMAT]: 33, pl. 10, f. 74-80; [BK]: 240, pl. 25, f. 349; [FE]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM] ; [MBE]

600x435 (~28Kb) underside Morocco, Aoulouz, Anti-Atlas, Photo © Michel Tarrier

600x435 (~25Kb) underside Morocco, Aoulouz, Anti-Atlas, Photo © Michel Tarrier

Azanus sitalces (Mabille, [1900])

-. See [maps]

Lycaena sitalces Mabille, [1900]; Ann. Soc. ent Fr. 68 (4): 723; TL: Madagascar, Antongil
Azanus rubropuncta Lathy, 1921; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (9) 8 (44): 208; TL: Marsantsetia, N.E. Madagascar
- = ; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 252

Azanus (Azanus) sitalces; [AfrL]
Azanus sitalces; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 252; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]

A. s. sitalces Madagascar

Azanua sitalces sitalces; [MadL]
Azanus (Azanus) sitalces sitalces; [AfrL]
Azanus sitalces sitalces; [BAFR], 552; [iNaturalist]

A. s. mayotti D'Abrera, 1980 Comoro (Mayotte I.)

Azanus sitalces mayotti D'Abrera, 1980; : 552, fig.; TL: Mayotte, L. Humblot

Azanus (Azanus) sitalces mayotti; [AfrL]
Azanus mayotti; [iNaturalist]
Azanus sitalces mayotti; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]

Azanus moriqua (Wallengren, 1857)

West Africa - South Africa - E.Africa, Angola, SW.Arabia. See [maps] Black-Bordered Babul Blue

Lycaena moriqua Wallengren, 1857; K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl. 2 (4): 39; TL: Caffraria
Lycaena benigna Möschler, 1884; Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 33: 285, pl. 16, f. 1
- = ; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 252; [AfrL]

Azanus (Azanus) moriqua; [AfrL]
Azanus moriqua; Clench, 1965, Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc. 19: 397; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 252; [PBSA]; [EBW]; [BOW]: pl. 120, f. 47; [BAFR], 552; [BK]: 241, pl. 25, f. 351; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM]

Azanus mirza (Plötz, 1880)

Zululand, Transvaal, Rhodesia, Moçambique, Sierra Leone - Kenya. See [maps] Pale Babul Blue

Lycaena mirza Plötz, 1880; Stettin ent. Ztg 41 (4-6): 203 (not preocc. Lycaena mirza Staudinger, 1874 (ICZN 1478)); TL: Victoria
Azanus occidentalis Butler, 1887; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1887: 571
- = ; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 252; [AfrL]
Azanus mirza f. dificiens Dufrane, 1952; Bull. Ann. Soc. ent. Belg. 88: 55
- = ; [AfrL]
Azanus mirza f. ornata Dufrane, 1953; Bull. Ann. Soc. ent. Belg. 89: 55
Azanus mirzaellus Koçak, 1980; Nota lepid. 2 (4): 141 (repl. Lycaena mirza Plötz, 1880); TL: Victoria
- = ; [AfrL]

Azanus (Azanus) mirza; [AfrL]
Azanus mirza ornata; [CoL]
Azanus mirza; Clench, 1965, Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc. 19: 397; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 252; [PBSA]; [BOW]: pl. 120, f. 48; [BAFR], 551; [BK]: 241, pl. 25, f. 350; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM]
Azanus mirza f. ornata; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 252
Lycaena mirza; [CoL]

A. m. deficiens Dufrane, 1953 Kivu

mirza deficiens Dufrane, 1953; Bull. Ann. Soc. ent. Belg. 89: 55

Azanus mirza deficiens; [CoL]
Azanus mirza f. deficiens; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 252

Azanus uranus Butler, 1886

Baluchistan, India. See [maps] Indian Babul Blue Dull Babul Blue

Azanus uranus Butler, 1886; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1886 (3): 366; TL: Hassan Abdal, Punjab

Azanus uranus; [BIR], 267; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]

Subgenus Azanisis Kemal, 2004

Subgenus Azanisis Kemal, 2004 (Azanus); Centr. Ent. Stud. Misc. Pap. 88/89: 11 (note); TS: Papilio isis Drury

Subgenus Azanisis (Azanus); [AfrL]
Azanisis; [NHM-BMW]

Azanus isis (Drury, 1773)

Guinea - Uganda, Ethiopia, Zaire, Angola. See [maps]

Papilio isis Drury, 1773; Illust. Nat. Hist. Exot. Insects 2: pl. 3, f. 4-5
Papilio caeruleo-albus [= caeruleoalbus] Goeze, 1779; Ent. Beyträge 3 (1): 212
- = (coeruleoalbus); Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 252
- = ; [AfrL]
Papilio camillus Cramer, [1780]; Uitl. Kapellen 4 (25-26a): 20, pl. 300, f. A, B
- = ; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 252; [AfrL]
Hesperia isarchus Fabricius, 1793; Ent. Syst. 3 (1): 316
- = ; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 252; [AfrL]

Azanus (Azanisis) isis; [AfrL]
Azanus isis; Clench, 1965, Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc. 19: 396; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 252; [EBW]; [BAFR], 551; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM]
Castalius isis; Fruhstorfer, 1918, Tijdschr. Ent. 61 (1/2): 22, pl. 4, f. 1; [BOW]: pl. 121, f. 6

Azanus crameri Moore, [1881]; Lepid. Ceylon 1 (2): 80, pl. 36, f. 1; TL: Ceylon

Azanus crameri; [CoL]

References:

[AfrL] Mark C. Williams
Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperoidea; Compiled by Mark C. Williams, 7th ed. (2008) (April 2007); Afrototropical Butterflies; e-mail: Mark C. Williams
[CEB]
Caucasian Entomological Bulletin; issues (PDF)
[CoL] Catalogue of Life
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Vandepitte, L., Hobern, D., Schalk, P., DeWalt, R. E., Ma, K., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Adlard, R., Aedo, C., et al. (2024). Catalogue of Life Checklist (Version 2024-03-26); https://doi.org/10.48580/dfz8d
[FE] Fauna Europaea
Fauna Europaea
[LAMAS-2005] Gerardo Lamas
Entomofauna 26 (6): 57-100; A Bibliography of the Zoological Publications of Hans Fruhstorfer (1886* - 1922+)
[LEPIFORUM]
Lepiforum; Bestimmung von Schmetterlingen (Lepidoptera) und ihren Präimaginalstadien
[MBE] Moths and Butteflies of Europe
Paolo Mazzei, Diego Reggianti and Ilaria Pimpinelli; http://www.leps.it/
[Michel Tarrier]
Michel R. Tarrier; Malaga, Spain; http://www.tarrier.org
[NHM-BMW] Natural History Museum
Butterflies and Moths of the World; Generic Names and their Type-species
[Yutaka Inayoshi]
A Check List of Butterflies in Indo-China; Chiefly from THAILAND, LAOS & VIETNAM
[iNaturalist]
iNaturalist
[maps]
Warning! The maps are automatically generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.

Some related literature:

Butler, 1876
On a Collection of Lepidoptera recently received from Abyssinia Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (4) 18 (108) : 480-490
Butler, 1886
On Lepidoptera collected by Major Yerbury in Western India Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1886 (3) : 355-395, pl. 35
Butler, 1887
On two small Collections of African Lepidoptera recently received from Mr. H. H. Johnston Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1887 : 567-574
Cramer, [1780]
Uitlandsche Kapellen (Papillons exotiques) Uitl. Kapellen 4 (25-26a): 1-28, pl. 289-304 (1780), : 247-252 (index)
[BAFR]; D'Abrera, 1980
Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region: -
[PBSA]; Dickson & Kroon, 1978
Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa
Drury, 1773
Illustrations of natural history; wherein are exhibited ... Illust. Nat. Hist. Exot. Insects 2 : pl. 1-50, : 1-100 (1837)
Dufrane, 1953
Lépidoptères du Kivu (5e note) Bull. Ann. Soc. ent. Belg. 89 : 41-57
Eliot, 1973
The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative Arrangement Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6) : 373-505 (162fgs), pl. 1-6
Fabricius, 1793
Entomologia Systematica emendata et aucta. Ent. Syst. 3 (1) : 1-487
Clench in Fox, Lindsey, Clench & Miller, 1965
The Butterflies of Liberia Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc. 19 : 1-438
Fruhstorfer, 1918
Revision der Gattung Castalius auf Grund der Morphologie der Generationsorgane Tijdschr. Ent. 61 (1/2) : 17-44, pl. 4-5 (15 July)
Godart, [1824]
Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire naturelle Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des crustacés, des arachnides et des insectes Encyclopédie Méthodique 9 (1): 3-328 (1819), (2): 329-828 ([1824])
Goeze, 1779
Entomologische Beyträge zu des Ritter Linné zwölften Ausgabe des Natursystems Ent. Beyträge 3 (1) : 1-390
Guérin-Méneville, 1849
Voyage en Abyssinie (Insectes) execute pendant les annees 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843 Voy. Abyssinie : 243-398, (Atlas): pl. 1-12
[H&R]; Higgins & Riley, 1970
A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Britain and Europe
Karsch, 1900
Vorläufige kurze Kennzeichnung von fünf neuen, durch Herrn Dr. A. Voelzkow in West-Madagascar entedecten Lepidopteren Ent. Nachr. 26 (24) : 369-370
Kemal, 2004
On the butterflies of the Soutpansberg Mountains (South Africa) (Lepidoptera) Centr. Ent. Stud. Misc. Pap. 88/89 : 1-13
Koçak, 1980
On the nomenclature of some genus- and species-group names of Lepidoptera Nota lepid. 2 (4) : 139-146
[BK]; Larsen, 1996
The Butterflies of Kenya and their natural history Butterflies of Kenya
Lathy, 1921
Two new Species of Lycaenidae from Madagascar Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (9) 8 (44) : 208
Lederer, 1855
Beitrag zu einer Schmetterlingsfauna von Cypern, Beirut und einem Theil Kleinasiens Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 5 : 177-234, pl. 1-5
[MadL]; Lees, Kremen & Raharitsimba, 2003
Classification, Diversity and Endemism of the Butterflies (Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea): A Revised Species Checklist in Goodman & Benstead, Nat. Hist. Madagascar : 762-793
[BOW]; Lewis, 1974
Butterflies of the World
Mabille, [1900]
Lepidoptera nova Malagassica et Africana Ann. Soc. ent Fr. 68 (4) : 723-753
Moore, 1865
List of diurnal Lepidoptera collected by Capt. A.M. Lang in the N. W. Himalayas Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1865 (2) : 486-509, pl. 30-31
Moore, [1881]
The Lepidoptera of Ceylon Lepid. Ceylon 1 (1): 1-40, pl. 1-18 (Dec 1880), (2): 41-80, pl. 19-36 (Jan 1881), (3): 81-136, pl. 37-54 (Jun 1881), (4): 137-190, pl. 55-71 (Dec 1881)
Möschler, 1884
Beiträge zur Schmetterlings-Fauna des Kafferlands Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 33 : 267-310, pl. 16
Plötz, 1880
Verzeichniss der von Professor Dr. R. Bucholz in West-Africa gesammelten Schmetterlinge Stettin ent. Ztg 41 (1-3): 76-88, (4-6): 189-206, (7-9): 298-307
Riley & Godfrey, 1921
Some undescribed Rhopalocera from Siam J. nat. Hist. Soc. Siam 4 (3) : 167-190, pl. 4-7
[EBW]; Smart, 1976
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World Illust. Encyp. Butt. World: -
Staudinger, [1895]
Neue Lepidopteren-Arten und Varietäten aus dem paläarktischen Faunengebiet Dt. Ent. Z. Iris 7 (2) : 241-296 (1895), : 376 (Berichtigungen)
Stempffer, 1967
The genera of the African Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10 : 1-322
Stoll, [1782]
Uitlandsche Kapellen (Papillons exotiques) in Cramer, Uitl. Kapellen 4 (26b-28): 29-90, pl. 305-336 (1780), (29-31): 91-164, pl. 337-372 (1781), (32-32): 165-252, 1-29, pl. 373-400 (1782)
Stradomsky, 2016
A molecular phylogeny of the subfamily Polyommatinae (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) Caucasian Ent. Bull. 12 (1) : 145-156
[BMAT]; Tennent, 1996
The Butterflies of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia : 1-217
Trimen, 1870
Notes on Butterflies collected by J. H. Bowker, Esq., in Basuto-land, South Africa; with descriptions of some New Species Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1870 (4) : 341-390, pl. 6
Trimen & Bowker, 1887
South-African Butterflies: A monograph of the extra-tropical species. 2. Erycinidae and Lycaenidae S-Afr. Butts 2 : 1-242, pl. 7-9
Walker, 1870
A list of the Butterflies collected by J.K. Lord Esq. in Egypt, along the African shore of the Red Sea, and in Arabia; with descriptions of the Species new to Science Entomologist 5 (76): 48-57, (80-81): 123-134, (82): 151-155
Wallengren, 1857
Kafferlandets Dag-fjärilar, insamlade åren 1838-1845 af J. A. Wahlberg / Lepidoptera Rhopalocera in Terra Caffrorum annis 1838-1845 collecta a J. A. Wahlberg K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl. 2 (4) : 1-55
[BIR]; Wynter-Blyth, 1957
Butterflies of the Indian Region (1982 Reprint)

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