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Issue: Vol. 5099 No. 1: 10 Feb. 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-02-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5099.1.2
Page range: 46-64
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Description of four Iolaus Hübner, 1819 species in the subgenus Philiolaus Stempffer & Bennett, 1958 from East Africa, assigned to the proposed I. maritimus species group (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Theclinae)

African Butterfly Research Institute, P.O. Box 14308, 0800 Nairobi, Kenya. Institute of Silviculture and Forest Protection, University of Sopron, Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út 4. H9400 Sopron, Hungary.
African Butterfly Research Institute, P.O. Box 14308, 0800 Nairobi, Kenya. Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, OX3 0BP, United Kingdom.
African Butterfly Research Institute, P.O. Box 14308, 0800 Nairobi, Kenya.
Lepidoptera revision new species butterflies Iolaus uluguru sp. nov. Iolaus njombe sp. nov. Iolaus collinsi sp. nov. Iolaus bundali sp. nov. Eastern Arc Mountains East African Rift coastal forest submontane forest montane forest Loranthaceae endemism

Abstract

Four new Iolaus Hübner, 1819 species are described in the subgenus Philiolaus Stempffer & Bennett, 1958. They are assigned to the newly formed I. maritimus species group. Members of the group occur in the coastal forests of Kenya, submontane and montane forests in Tanzania and Mozambique, and are locally distributed in montane forests at the western shores of Lake Malawi, in southwestern Tanzania, and northern Zambia/Malawi

 

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