| Iolaus sibella | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Iolaus |
| Species: | I. sibella |
| Binomial name | |
| Iolaus sibella (H. H. Druce, 1910) [1] | |
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Iolaus sibella is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae first described by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1910. It is found in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Ituri), Uganda, western Kenya and Zambia. [2] The habitat consists of forests.
The larvae feed on Globimetula braunii and Englerina woodfordioides .