''Euchrysops mauensis'', the Mau blue, is a
butterfly in the family
Lycaenidae. It is found in
Ethiopia,
Kenya,
Tanzania,
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 ...
,
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 ...
and
Kivu in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The habitat consists of open grassland.
Subspecies
*''Euchrysops mauensis mauensis'' (Kenya: highlands west of the Rift Valley, northern Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Kivu)
*''Euchrysops mauensis abyssiniae''
Storace, 1950 (Ethiopia)
References
Butterflies described in 1923
Euchrysops
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