- GBIF observations
- 246 GBIF
Taxonomic rank
Species
Description
Iolaus pallene, the saffron sapphire, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found from southern Sudan, Angola, southern Democratic Republic of the Congo (Shaba) and Kenya to South Africa. In South Africa it is found from the thorn belt of KwaZulu-Natal and Eswatini to Mpumalanga, Gauteng, Limpopo and North West.
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Status
- COL status
- accepted
- Name status
- acceptable
- Nomenclatural code
- zoological
Specimens in the collection
Legacy synonyms
iolaus pallene
Non-butterfly
Off
Hybrid
Larval host plants GloBI
Observed associations from aggregated sources — unranked.