Azanus, commonly called babul blues, is a genus of butterflies found in Africa and southwestern Asia.Azanus at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Taxonomic revisions The subgenus Azanisis (Kemal, 2004) was described in 2004, with Azanus isis designated as its type species. Azanisis is now considered a junior subjective synonym of Azanus (Moore, 1881).
Species Listed alphabetically: Image Scientific name Common name Distribution Azanus isis (Drury, 1773) white-banded babul blue Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, southern Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the DRC, Uganda, Ethiopia, north-western Tanzania and northern Zambia Azanus jesous (Guérin-Méneville, 1849) African babul blue or topaz-spotted blueEgypt, Syria, India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar Azanus mirza (Plötz, 1880) pale babul blue or mirza blueAfrotropical realm. Azanus moriqua (Wallengren, 1857) black-bordered babul blue or thorn-tree blueAfrotropical realm. Azanus natalensis (Trimen & Bowker, 1887) Natal babul blue or Natal spotted blueAfrotropical realm Azanus sitalces (Mabille, 1899) large Madagascar babul blue Madagascar and the Comoros Azanus soalalicus (Karsch, 1900) small Madagascar babul blue Madagascar Azanus ubaldus (Stoll, ) bright babul blue, desert babul blue, or velvet-spotted blueIndia, the Middle East and Africa Azanus uranus Butler, 1886 Indian babul blue or dull babul blue India Azanus urios Riley & Godfrey, 1921 Siam babul blue India and Thailand
References
Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 73