GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE 



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List of Species of Iolaus (Philiolaus) 



Iolaus (Philiolaus) parasilanus parasilanus Rebel, 1914. 

 Novit. zool. 34. 

 *Iolaus (Philiolaus) parasilanus divaricatus Riley, 1928, I.e. 



genitalia, Stempffer & Bennett, 1958. 

 *Iolaus (Philiolaus) parasilanus mabillei Riley, 1928, I.e. : 378, figs. 



genitalia, Stempffer & Bennett, 1958. 

 *Iolaus (Philiolaus) parasilanus maesseni Stempffer & Bennett, 1958, fig. and 

 fig. genitalia. 



Fig. Riley, 1928, 

 377, figs. Fig. 

 Fig. 



IOLAUS (APHNIOLAUS) H. H. Druce 



Aphniolaus II. II. Druce, i<>o2, Prut. zool. Soc. Lond. 1902 : 117 Type-species: Myrina 



pallene Wallengren, by original designation. 

 Iolaus Hubner (partim) ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 326 ; 1924 : 405 ; Murray, 1935 : Si ; Swanepoel, 



1953 : i7 8 - 



Eyes smooth ; frons clothed with yellowish white hairs ; palpi long, ascending, parallel, 

 second segment long, clothed below with yellow adpressed scales, third segment long, cylindrical, 

 acuminate, clothed with black scales ; antennae short , club cylindrical, not well differentiated ; 

 thorax robust, clothed below with long silky hairs ; abdomen short ; J fore leg with tibia 

 slightly shorter than femur, tarsus unsegmented, finelv Spinose below. 



Wing shape. Fore wing inner margin straight without lobe ; hind wing produced at the 

 anal angle, outer margin angular at the end of vein 3, a delicate tail at the end of vein 2 and a 

 much longer one at the end of lb, a lobe at the anal angle. No secondary o* sexual characters. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 2051. l-'ore wing with 11 veins in both sexes ; hind wing, cell verv 

 short. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 123). Uncus composed of two small triangular lobes separated by 

 a slight depression of the margin of the tegumen ; subunci short, very robust, almost straight, 

 shaped like two blades with rounded apices ; tegumen large, quadrangular, in their normal 

 position uncus and tegumen together are hood-shaped ; vinculum broad with no saccus ; 

 lower fultura strongly developed, Y-shaped, the two apices spatulate with a slightly serrated 



Fig. 123. Iolaus {Aphniolaus) pallene (Wallengren), $ genitalia. 



