Iolana is a Palearctic genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.

Species include:

  • Iolana iolas Ochsenheimer, 1816 iolas blue
    • Iolana iolas iolas Ochsenheimer, 1816 North Africa, South Europe, Asia Minor
    • Iolana iolas lessei (Bernardi, 1964) Armenia.
    • Iolana iolas debiliata (Schultz, 1905) or Iolana debilitata (Schultz, 1905) Morocco and Algeria
  • Iolana alfierii Wiltshire, 1948 Egypt
  • Iolana andreasi (Sheljuzhko, 1919) Iran
  • Iolana gigantea (Grum-Grshimailo, 1885) Afghanistan and Pakistan.

References

  1. ^ Bethune-Baker, G.T., 1914. Synonymic notes on the Ruralidae Ent. Rec. 26: 159–164.
  • Bridges, C. A. 1994. Catalogue of the Family-Group, Genus-Group and Species-Group Names of the Riodinidae & Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) of the World. Bridges, Urbana, Illinois.