Iolaus creta: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Genus
- Iolaus
- Species
- Iolaus creta
- Scientific Name
- Iolaus creta
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Iolaus creta
Iolaus creta, the blotched sapphire, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Nigeria (the Cross River loop), Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Tshopo and Kivu) and Uganda (western Bwamba). The habitat consists of forests.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Argiolaus
- Iolaphilus kayonza
- Iolaphilus vansomereni
- Iolaus aelianus
- Iolaus aemulus
- Iolaus aethria
- Iolaus alcibiades
- Iolaus alienus
- Iolaus aphnaeoides
- Iolaus aurivillii
- Iolaus australis
- Iolaus bakeri
- Iolaus bamptoni
- Iolaus bansana
- Iolaus bellina
- Iolaus bilineata
- Iolaus bolissus
- Iolaus caesareus
- Iolaus carina
- Iolaus carolinae
- Iolaus crawshayi
- Iolaus creta
- Iolaus diametra
- Iolaus djaloni
- Iolaus eurisus
- Iolaus frater
- Iolaus glaucus
- Iolaus hemicyanus
- Iolaus iasis
- Iolaus ismenias
- Iolaus iturensis
- Iolaus jamesoni
- Iolaus julus
- Iolaus lalos
- Iolaus laon
- Iolaus laonides
- Iolaus likpe
- Iolaus lulua
- Iolaus maesa
- Iolaus menas
- Iolaus mermeros
- Iolaus mermis
- Iolaus mimosae
- Iolaus montana
- Iolaus nasisii
- Iolaus ndolae
- Iolaus newporti
- Iolaus obscura
- Iolaus obscurus
- Iolaus ofere
- Iolaus pallene
- Iolaus paneperata
- Iolaus penningtoni
- Iolaus poultoni
- Iolaus schultzei
- Iolaus scintillans
- Iolaus sciophilus
- Iolaus sidus
- Iolaus silarus
- Iolaus stenogrammica
- Iolaus stewarti
- Iolaus tajoraca
- Iolaus timon
- Iolaus trimeni
- Iolaus violacea
- Iolaus yalae