| Pseudophilotes | |
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| Pseudophilotes vicrama | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Polyommatinae |
| Tribe: | Polyommatini |
| Genus: | Pseudophilotes Beuret, 1958 |
| Synonyms | |
RubrapterusKorshunov, 1990 | |
Pseudophilotes is a Palearctic genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.
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Pseudophilotes vicrama, the eastern baton blue, is a small butterfly found from 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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Valentina Todisco, Andrea Grill, Konrad Fiedler, Brigitte Gottsberger, Vlad Dincă, Raluca Vodă, Vladimir Lukhtanov and Harald Letsch (2018). Molecular phylogeny of the Palaearctic butterfly genus Pseudophilotes (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) with focus on the Sardinian endemic P. barbagiae. BMC Zoology 3:4. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40850-018-0032-7