Iolaus nasisii: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Genus
- Iolaus
- Species
- Iolaus nasisii
- Scientific Name
- Iolaus nasisii
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Iolaus nasisii
Iolaus nasisii, the Nasisi sapphire or Zimbabwe yellow-banded sapphire, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in the forest and savannah in the extreme north of Limpopo, north to Uganda, western Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, northern Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia (Caprivi).
The wingspan is 26–28 mm for males and 27–29 mm for females. Adults are on wing from October to March in South Africa. There is one generation per year.
The larvae feed on the Tapinanthus species T. quinquagulus, T. dicrous, T. nyasicus, T. ceciliae, T. brunneus, T. subulatus and Oliverella rubroviridis.
...Iolaus nasisii in languages:
- English
- Zimbabwe Yellow-banded Sapphire
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