Iolaus crawshayi

Iolaus crawshayi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Iolaus
Species:	I. crawshayi
Binomial name
Iolaus crawshayi (Butler, 1901)
Synonyms
Argiolaus crawshayi Butler, 1901 Iolaus (Argiolaus) crawshayi Argiolaus crawshayi elgonae Stempffer & Bennett, 1958 Argiolaus crawshayi littoralis Stempffer & Bennett, 1958 Iolaus (Argiolaus) crawshayi kalleb Koçak, 1996 Iolaus silas maureli Dufrane, 1954 Argiolaus crawshayi niloticus Stempffer & Bennett, 1958 Argiolaus crawshayi nyanzae Stempffer & Bennett, 1958

Iolaus crawshayi, the Crawshay's sapphire, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania. 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

• I. c. crawshayi (Kenya: highlands east of the Rift Valley)
• I. c. elgonae (Stempffer & Bennett, 1958) (Kenya, Uganda)
• I. c. littoralis (Stempffer & Bennett, 1958) (Tanzania: east and inland to Moshi and Korogwe and south to Lindi, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Shaba, Kenya: eastern lowlands and inland to Makindu, the Kitui district and Mount Marsabit)
• I. c. maureli Dufrane, 1954 (Ethiopia, southern Somalia, north-eastern Kenya)
• I. c. niloticus (Stempffer & Bennett, 1958) (Uganda: West Nile district)
• I. c. nyanzae (Stempffer & Bennett, 1958) (Kenya: western highlands, Uganda: Jinja)

External links

• Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 68 c