*61. Iolaus iasis iasis (Hewitson, 1865)

WL: 17mm. The species is recognizable by the sky-blue and black triangular forewings, markedly lobed along their inner margin. The nominate subspecies is known in West Africa from Gambia to southern Nigeria—though it is a faunistic novelty for Guinea-Bissau—and also occurs in Cameroon, Gabon, DRC and Angola. The other known subspecies, I. iasis albomaculatus, is known from Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. The host-plants are Loranthaceae (Larsen, 2005) .

Studied material. Bafatá: Tabandinto, cashew, 0 9.02.2013, 1♀ (SV) (CZ000011036) . Gabú: Biricunda, woodland, 0 3.07.2013, 1♂ (SV) (CZ000011037).

Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: R; CS: I.