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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.
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