Iolana
Appearance
Iolana | |
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Iolana alfierii | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Subfamily: | Polyommatinae |
Tribe: | Polyommatini |
Genus: | Iolana Bethune-Baker, 1914[1] |
Iolana is a Palearctic genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.
Species include:
- Iolana iolas Ochsenheimer, 1816 iolas blue
- Iolana iolas iolas Ochsenheimer, 1816 North Africa, South Europe, Asia Minor
- Iolana iolas lessei (Bernardi, 1964) Armenia.
- Iolana iolas debiliata (Schultz, 1905) or Iolana debilitata (Schultz, 1905) Morocco and Algeria
- Iolana alfierii Wiltshire, 1948 Egypt
- Iolana andreasi (Sheljuzhko, 1919) Iran
- Iolana gigantea (Grum-Grshimailo, 1885) Afghanistan and Pakistan.
References
[edit]- ^ Bethune-Baker, G.T., 1914. Synonymic notes on the Ruralidae Ent. Rec. 26: 159–164.
- Bridges, C. A. 1994. Catalogue of the Family-Group, Genus-Group and Species-Group Names of the Riodinidae & Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) of the World. Bridges, Urbana, Illinois.