[ now Pseudophilotes panoptes (Hübner, [1813]) — a similar form is found in Spain and North Africa, the reddish yellow submarginal band being absent from the hindwing beneath, the underside of the hindwing purer in tint, more pale dust-grey, with the ocelli distinct but very thin; the upperside very uniform in colour: abencerragus Pier.

— In Anterior Asia the males have a brighter colour, which has often a silvery white sheen; this is clara Christ.

— cashmirensis Moore [now subspecies of Pseudophilotes vicrama], from Kashmir, has a distinct black discocellular spot on the forewing like the European forms on the upperside, moreover, the forewing bears whitish marginal lunules and dark veins and the hindwing marginal dots.

— Larva laterally strongly carinate, the segments somewhat swollen, light green with blackish head and rosy-red pyriform dorsal spots divided by a purple dorsal line and accompanied laterally by white dots; stigmata white.

They fly usually very short distances and settle on grasses and the tops of herbage with the wings half open and widely separated.

Named in the Classical tradition.The specific epithet is derived from Baton, the charioteer of the general Amphiaraos from Greek mythology.