Iolaus iasis iasis ( Hewitson, 1865 )

Bivar-De-Sousa, António, Vasconcelos, Sasha, Mendes, Luís F., Larsen, Torben B., Baker, Jon & Guilherme, João L., 2016, Butterflies of Guinea-Bissau: VIII. New data, new reports, corrections and biodiversity (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea), Zootaxa 4201 (1), pp. 1-77 : 22

*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.