Azanus


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

Taxonomic revisions

The subgenus Azanisis was described in 2004, with Azanus isis designated as its type species. Azanisis is now considered a junior subjective synonym of Azanus.

Species

Listed alphabetically:
ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
Azanus isis white-banded babul blueSenegal, 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 African babul blue or topaz-spotted blueEgypt, Syria, India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar
Azanus mirza pale babul blue or mirza blueAfrotropical realm.
Azanus moriqua black-bordered babul blue or thorn-tree blueAfrotropical realm.
Azanus natalensis Natal babul blue or Natal spotted blueAfrotropical realm
Azanus sitalces large Madagascar babul blueMadagascar and the Comoros
Azanus soalalicus small Madagascar babul blueMadagascar
Azanus ubaldus bright babul blue, desert babul blue, or velvet-spotted blueIndia, the Middle East and Africa
Azanus uranus Butler, 1886Indian babul blue or dull babul blueIndia
Azanus urios Riley & Godfrey, 1921Siam babul blueIndia and Thailand