Iolaini

Iolaini
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Subfamily:	Theclinae
Tribe:	Iolaini Riley, 1958
Genera
Some 20, see text

The Iolaini are a tribe of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. ^{[1] [2]}

Genera

As not all Theclinae have been assigned to tribes, the following list of genera is preliminary:

• Britomartis
• Bullis
• Charana
• Creon
• Dacalana
• Etesiolaus
• Iolaus ^[3] - includes Argiolaus, Epamera, Iolaphilus
• Jacoona
• Maneca
• Manto
• Mantoides
• Matsutaroa
• Neocheritra
• Paruparo
• Pratapa
• Purlisa
• Rachana - formerly Eliotia (preoccupied)
• Stugeta
• Suasa
• Sukidion
• Tajuria
• Tanuetheira
• Thrix
• Trichiolaus

References

1. Tea, Yi-Kai; Liew, Nyok-Lin; Soong, Jonathan Wei; Barlow, Henry S. (November 2021). "On the Use of the Showy Mistletoe Helixanthera cylindrica (Santalales: Loranthaceae) as a Nectar Source for Butterflies in the Malay Peninsula, South-East Asia" . The Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society. 75 (4): 297–301. doi:10.18473/lepi.75i4.a8. ISSN   0024-0966. S2CID   244703369.
2. "フタオシジミ族のページ：リスト１". www.pteron-world.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-05-05.
3. Ducarme, Röbert (31 May 2018). "The butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of the north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo" (PDF). Lepidopterists' Society of Africa. 29: 23–27.