Iolaus Hemicyanus
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''Iolaus hemicyanus'' is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Cameroon,
Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea ( es, Guinea Ecuatorial; french: Guinée équatoriale; pt, Guiné Equatorial), officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea ( es, link=no, República de Guinea Ecuatorial, french: link=no, République de Guinée équatoria ...
( Bioko), the
Republic of the Congo The Republic of the Congo (french: République du Congo, ln, Republíki ya Kongó), also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country located in the western coast of Central Africa to the w ...
, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. The habitat consists of forests. The larvae feed on ''
Globimetula braunii ''Globimetula'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Loranthaceae Loranthaceae, commonly known as the showy mistletoes, is a family of flowering plants. It consists of about 75 genera and 1,000 species of woody plants, many ...
'' and '' Phragmananthera usuiensis''.


Subspecies

*''Iolaus hemicyanus hemicyanus'' (Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania) *''Iolaus hemicyanus barbara'' Suffert, 1904 (Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea) *''Iolaus hemicyanus barnsi'' (Joicey & Talbot, 1921) (Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Uele, Tshopo, Kivu, Maniema, Sankuru and Lualaba)


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''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 68
''g'' ssp. ''barbara'' Suffert, 1904 Butterflies described in 1904 Iolaus (butterfly) {{Theclinae-stub