Pseudophilotes vicrama

Eastern baton blue
In Turkey
In North Macedonia
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Pseudophilotes
Species:
P. vicrama
Binomial name
Pseudophilotes vicrama
(Moore, 1865)
Synonyms
  • Polyommatus vicrama Moore, 1865
  • Turana baton anteschiffermulleri Verity, 1936
  • Lycaena baton var. clara Christoph, 1887

Pseudophilotes vicrama, the eastern baton blue, is a small butterfly found in Asia, east to Tian Shan and parts of China, west to the Balkans, Turkey, eastern Europe to southern Finland. It belongs to the lycaenids or blues family. The species was first described by Frederic Moore in 1865.