Iolaus crawshayi
| Iolaus crawshayi | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Iolaus |
| Species: | I. crawshayi |
| Binomial name | |
| Iolaus crawshayi (Butler, 1901)[1] | |
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Iolaus crawshayi, Crawshay’s Sapphire, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of moist savanna.
The larvae feed on the young leaves of Erianthemum dregei and Phragmanthera usuiensis. They are dull dirty whitish-green or brown.
Subspecies
- Iolaus crawshayi crawshayi (Kenya: highlands east of the Rift Valley)
- Iolaus crawshayi elgonae (Stempffer & Bennett, 1958) (Kenya, Uganda)
- Iolaus crawshayi littoralis (Stempffer & Bennett, 1958) (Tanzania: east and inland to Moshi and Korogwe and south to Lindi, Democratic Republic of Congo: Shaba, Kenya: eastern lowlands and inland to Makindu, the Kitui district and Mount Marsabit)
- Iolaus crawshayi maureli Dufrane, 1954 (Ethiopia, southern Somalia, north-eastern Kenya)
- Iolaus crawshayi niloticus (Stempffer & Bennett, 1958) (Uganda: West Nile district)
- Iolaus crawshayi nyanzae (Stempffer & Bennett, 1958) (Kenya: western highlands, Uganda: Jinja)
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