Iolaus menas menas Druce, 1890

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 : 21-22

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scientific name	Iolaus menas menas Druce, 1890
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WL: 19mm. I. menas is a new record for Guinea-Bissau, though its presence in the country was previously suggested (Larsen, 2005). The species occurs mainly in savanna and the nominate subspecies ranges from Senegal to Cameroon, Sudan and Ethiopia. The caterpillars feed on some species of Loranthaceae . Studied material. Cacheu: Caió , 1 specimen (JB).

Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: R; CS: I.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Lepidoptera
Family	Lycaenidae
SubFamily	Theclinae
Genus	Iolaus

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