''Euchrysops crawshayi'', Crawshay's blue, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania,

Burundi Burundi (, ), officially the Republic of Burundi ( rn, Repuburika y’Uburundi ; Swahili language, Swahili: ''Jamuhuri ya Burundi''; French language, French: ''République du Burundi'' ), is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the ...

Rwanda Rwanda (; rw, u Rwanda ), officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator ...

Sudan Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...

and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The habitat consists of moist savanna. The larvae feed on ''

Anchusa The genus ''Anchusa'' belongs to the borage family (Boraginaceae). It includes about 35 species found growing in Europe, North Africa, South Africa and Western Asia. They are introduced in the United States. They consist of annual plants, bie ...

'' species, ''

Cynoglossum coeruleum ''Cynoglossum'' is a genus of small-flowered plants in the family Boraginaceae (borage family). ''Cynoglossum officinale'', the common hound's-tongue, is a native of Asia, Africa, and Europe. It has been introduced into North America, and it is ...

'' and ''

Cynoglossum lanceolatum ''Cynoglossum lanceolatum'' Forssk. is closely related to and grades into ''Cynoglossum coeruleum'' Hochst. ex A.DC. It is a much-branched biennial plant, occurring widely with an anthropogenic distribution, harvested from the wild and used as ...

''. They feed on the fleshy outer cortex of the main tap root of the host plant, always below ground. They are attended by many species of ants, including '' Monomorium'' ''minutum'' var. ''pallipes''.

Subspecies

*''Euchrysops crawshayi crawshayi'' (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, southern Sudan) *''Euchrysops crawshayi fontainei'' Stempffer, 1967 (Burundi, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo: east to South Kivu, north-western Tanzania)

References

Butterflies described in 1899 Euchrysops Butterflies of Africa Taxa named by Arthur Gardiner Butler {{Polyommatini-stub