Iolaus paneperata: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Genus
- Iolaus
- Species
- Iolaus paneperata
- Scientific Name
- Iolaus paneperata
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Iolaus paneperata
Iolaus paneperata, the parallel sapphire, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. The species was first described by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1890. It is found in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria (south and the Cross River loop), Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa and possibly Kwango).
The larvae feed on the flowers of Loranthus incanus and Phragmanthera capitata. They are green and resemble the flowers on which they feed.
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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