Iolaus crawshayi, the Crawshay's sapphire, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of moist savanna.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Iolaus |
| Species: | I. crawshayi
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The larvae feed on the young leaves of Erianthemum dregei and Phragmanthera usuiensis.
Subspecies
edit- I. c. crawshayi (Kenya: highlands east of the Rift Valley)
- I. c. elgonae (Stempffer & Bennett, 1958) (Kenya, Uganda)
- I. c. littoralis (Stempffer & Bennett, 1958) (Tanzania: east and inland to Moshi and Korogwe and south to Lindi, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Shaba, Kenya: eastern lowlands and inland to Makindu, the Kitui district and Mount Marsabit)
- I. c. maureli Dufrane, 1954 (Ethiopia, southern Somalia, north-eastern Kenya)
- I. c. niloticus (Stempffer & Bennett, 1958) (Uganda: West Nile district)
- I. c. nyanzae (Stempffer & Bennett, 1958) (Kenya: western highlands, Uganda: Jinja)
References
edit- ^ Iolaus at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Subtribe Iolaina". Archived from the original on 2014-04-07. Retrieved 2012-08-31.
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