Azanus
Butterfly genus in family Lycaenidae
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Azanus, commonly called babul blues, is a genus of butterflies found in Africa and southwestern Asia.[1]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Polyommatinae |
| Tribe: | Polyommatini |
| Genus: | Azanus Moore, [1881] |
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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).[2]
Species
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
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 | Azanus isis (Drury, 1773) | white-banded babul blue | Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, southern Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the DRC, Uganda, Ethiopia, north-western Tanzania and northern Zambia |
| Azanus jesous (Guérin-Méneville, 1849) | African babul blue or topaz-spotted blue | Egypt, Syria, India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar |
.jpg) | Azanus mirza (Plötz, 1880) | pale babul blue or mirza blue | Afrotropical realm. |
 | Azanus moriqua (Wallengren, 1857) | black-bordered babul blue or thorn-tree blue | Afrotropical realm. |
_underside.jpg) | Azanus natalensis (Trimen & Bowker, 1887) | Natal babul blue or Natal spotted blue | Afrotropical realm |
| Azanus sitalces (Mabille, 1899) | large Madagascar babul blue | Madagascar and the Comoros | |
| Azanus soalalicus (Karsch, 1900) | small Madagascar babul blue | Madagascar | |
 | Azanus ubaldus (Stoll, [1782]) | bright babul blue, desert babul blue, or velvet-spotted blue | India, the Middle East and Africa |
| Azanus uranus Butler, 1886 | Indian babul blue or dull babul blue | India | |
| Azanus urios Riley & Godfrey, 1921 | Siam babul blue | India and Thailand | |
