Iolaini Explained

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

Notes and 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 . 10.18473/lepi.75i4.a8 . 244703369 . 0024-0966.
2. Web site: フタオシジミ族のページ：リスト１ . 2022-05-05 . www.pteron-world.com . ja.
3. Ducarme . Röbert . 31 May 2018 . The butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of the north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo . Lepidopterists' Society of Africa . 29 . 23–27.