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.
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Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Eastern Baton Blue being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Pseudophilotes baton
- Pseudophilotes bavius
- Pseudophilotes panoptes
- Glabroculus cyane
- Plebejus bellieri
- Pseudophilotes abencerragus
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Genus
- Pseudophilotes
- Species
- Pseudophilotes vicrama
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