Azanus

Azanus Moore, [1881] Babul Blues

Azanus (Lycaenidae) Moore, [1881]; Lepid. Ceylon 1 (2): 79; TS: Papilio ubaldus Stoll
Azanisis Kemal, 2004; Centr. Ent. Stud. Misc. Pap. 88/89: 11; TS: Papilio isis Drury
- = Azanus (Azanisis) ; [AfrL]

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

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, Butterflies in Indo-China [Yutaka Inayoshi]

Azanus urios; [NHM card]

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
?artemides (Stoll, [1782]) (Papilio); (?? = Papilio artemidas[sic!], Stoll, [1782] = hesperiid!)
- = ?; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 252
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; [NHM card]; [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; [NHM card]; [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; [NHM card]; [AfrL]

Azanus ubaldus, Lepiforum [LEPIFORUM]
Azanus ubaldus, Moths and Butterflies of Europe [MBE]

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

Azanus soalalicus (Karsch, 1900)

Madagascar. See [maps]

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

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

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 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
Azanus (Azanus) natalensis; [AfrL]

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
- = ; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 252
Lampides agave Walker, 1870; Entomologist 5 (76): 53; TL: Hor Tamanib, Tajora
- = ; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 252; [NHM card]; [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; [NHM card]
- = ; [AfrL]

Azanus jesous, Lepiforum [LEPIFORUM]
Azanus jesous, Moths and Butterflies of Europe [MBE]

Azanus jesous jesous; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 252
Azanus jesous; [BOW]: pl. 120, f. 45, pl. 174, f. 19; [BAFR], 551; [NHM card]; [BMAT]: 33, pl. 10, f. 74-80; [BK]: 240, pl. 25, f. 349; [FE]
Azanus (Azanus) jesous; [AfrL]

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; [NHM card]

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

A. s. sitalces Madagascar

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

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

Azanus sitalces mayotti D'Abrera, 1980; Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region: 552, fig.; TL: Mayotte, L. Humblot

Azanus sitalces mayotti; [NHM card]
Azanus (Azanus) sitalces mayotti; [AfrL]

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; [NHM card]; [AfrL]

Azanus moriqua, Lepiforum [LEPIFORUM]

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

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 (preocc. Lycaena mirza Staudinger, 1874); TL: Victoria
Azanus occidentalis Butler, 1887; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1887: 571
- = ; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 252; [NHM card]; [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
- = ; [NHM card]
Azanus mirzaellus Koçak, 1980; Nota lepid. 2 (4): 141 (repl. Lycaena mirza Plötz, 1880); TL: Victoria
- = ; [AfrL]

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

A. m. deficiens Dufrane, 1953 Kivu

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

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

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; [NHM card]

Subgenus Azanisis Kemal, 2004

Azanisis (Azanus) Kemal, 2004; Centr. Ent. Stud. Misc. Pap. 88/89: (1-13) ; TS: Papilio isis Drury

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
- = ; [NHM card]; [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; [NHM card]; [AfrL]
Hesperia isarchus Fabricius, 1793; Ent. Syst. 3 (1): 316
- = ; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 252; [NHM card]; [AfrL]

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

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

Azanus crameri; [NHM card]

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)
[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] Natural History Museum
The Global Lepidoptera Names Index; 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
[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)
[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 : 1-90, pl. 1-50
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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