Sand Mountain blue

Sand Mountain blue
Euphilotes pallescens arenamontana

Critically Imperiled  (NatureServe)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Euphilotes
Species:
Subspecies:
E. p. arenamontana
Trinomial name
Euphilotes pallescens arenamontana
Austin, 1998

The Sand Mountain blue (Euphilotes pallescens arenamontana) is a lycaenid butterfly of the "blue" subfamily that is only found around the Sand Mountain Recreation Area near Fallon, Nevada. It is a subspecies of the pallid blue (Euphilotes pallescens).