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Azanus

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Also known as Babul Blues

Azanus, commonly called babul blues, is a genus of butterflies found in Africa and southwestern Asia.

Species

African Babul Blue

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderLepidoptera
  5. FamilyLycaenidae
Observations2,071
Observations recorded13,175

Azanus est un genre de lépidoptères (papillons) de la famille des Lycaenidae et de la sous-famille des Polyommatinae.

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
5
Family
Lycaenidae
Collections
NHMUK
Recorded in
Syria, Zambia

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Polyommatini
Image
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taxon name
Azanus
taxon rank
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Encyclopedic overview

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  • Taxonomic revisions
  • Species
  • References

Azanus, commonly called babul blues, is a genus of butterflies found in Africa and southwestern Asia.

== Taxonomic revisions == The subgenus Azanisis (Kemal, 2004) was described in 2004, with Azanus isis designated as its type species. Azanisis is now considered a junior subjective synonym of Azanus (Moore, 1881).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Azanus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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