Azanus jesous Guérin-Méneville, 1849

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 : 29

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4201.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3EB08193-954B-49BF-A989-1E73AC070E6B

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6068098

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A50287F3-FFF1-FFFF-FF0E-FBB1FC6EFA8E

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Plazi

scientific name

Azanus jesous Guérin-Méneville, 1849
status

 

*96. Azanus jesous Guérin-Méneville, 1849 View in CoL

WL: 12m. Widely distributed along the African savannas, A. jesous also occurs in the drier areas of the Eastern Mediterranean, Morocco, Arabian Peninsula and part of the Oriental Region, namely India and Sri Lanka ; it is now assigned to Guinea-Bissau, although Larsen (2005) already suspected its presence in the country. The caterpillars feed on several species of Fabaceae .

Studied material. Cacheu: Caió (JB).

Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: NF; CS: LC.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Lycaenidae

SubFamily

Polyommatinae

Genus

Azanus

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