Euchrysops nilotica, the desert blue or milky bean Cupid, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.

It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Burkina Faso, northern Nigeria, Niger, northern Cameroon, southern Sudan, Uganda, Ethiopia, Somalia and northern Kenya.

[2]— nilotica differs from the similar Euchrysops malathana in the light, softly greyish-blue or silvery grey colouring of the upper surface and in the paler under surface.

[3] The habitat consists of arid Sudanian Savanna and the Sahel.

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