Eastern baton blue
The eastern baton blue is a small butterfly. The male is a soft, dusty blue with a wide dark border, and the female is brown. Its wings have a neat black and white checked edge, like a tiny chessboard.
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Fun facts
It lives over a huge area, from southern Finland in the north all the way to India and Pakistan in the south.
In the past it was counted as a kind of baton blue, but now it is its own species.
In the mountains of Asia it is found in places like the Pamirs and the Tian Shan.
Its name comes from the checked black and white fringe on the edges of its wings.
Most asked questions about Eastern baton blue
?How big is the eastern baton blue?
Its wings are about 20 to 26 millimetres across.
?Where does the eastern baton blue live?
In eastern and south-eastern Europe, Turkey and a big part of Asia, from Siberia to India and China.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pseudophilotes vicrama
- Named by
- Moore, 1865
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Pseudophilotes vicrama (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Zeynel Cebeci. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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