The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·149688SpeciesInsecta2 field observations
  1. Animals
  2. ›Arthropods
  3. ›Hexapods
  4. ›Insects
  5. ›Winged and Once-winged Insects
  6. ›Butterflies and Moths
  7. ›Butterflies
  8. ›Gossamer-winged Butterflies
  9. ›Blues
  10. ›Typical Blues
  11. ›Scolitantidina
  12. ›Pseudophilotes
Sinai Baton Blue
Plate 1 of 1. (c) Arno Beidts, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Arno Beidts · via iNaturalist
IUCN CR · Critically endangered

Sinai Baton Blue

Pseudophilotes sinaicus

Pseudophilotes sinaicus, the Sinai baton blue, one of the world's smallest butterflies, lives only on mountainside patches of wild thyme in an arid corner of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt called Saint Katherine Protectorate.

Continue reading on Wikipedia
§·

Listen

Looking for field recordings…

§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Pseudophilotes sinaicus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 149688.