White Banded Babul Blue

Azanus isis Drury
Papilio isis Drury, 1773 [1770-1782] 2: 6; pi. 3, figs. 4, 5. Cupido isis: Karsch, 1893: 227. Castalius isis: Peters, 1952: 114. Azanus isis: Stempffer, 1942: 133; 1950: 404; 1952c: 149; 1952a: 189; 1954c: 353. Stempffer and Bennett, 1956: 513.
A. isis, one of the commonest butterflies of Upper Guinea, ranges from Sierra Leone and Guinea eastward to Abyssinia and Uganda, south to Angola and Katanga without showing any noticeable geographic variation at all.
Liberia: Taoke; Kaoueke; Nianiou; Ziabli; Penoke; Webo; Glofake (all Stempffer, 1950); Kpain, IV, VI, VIII, IX; Bahn, VIII; Baila, VIII; Venntown, VIII; Dingamo, VIII; Zuole, VIII; Karnwin, VIII (all Stempffer and Bennett, 1956); Fisherman's Lake, 2 S , 3 9 , V; Robert's Field, 1 9 , VI (both Thomas); Harbel, 2 S , 3 9 , I, 1 $ ,
3 $ , XI, 4 3,5 9 , XII; trail near Fisabu, 4 <^ , XII; Zorzor, 1 $ , 2 9 , XI, 2 S , XII; Ganta, 5 $ , V, 2 $,2 9 , VI, 1 9 , VII, 1 $ , X; Wanau Forest, 2 6 , III, 2 $ , X; between Vonjima and Yendamalahoun, 2 S , IV; Yendamalahoun, 10 i , 1 9 , IV (all Fox).

Azanus isis, the white-banded babul blue, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae which is native to the tropics and subtropics of sub-Saharan Africa.