Euphilotes bernardino inyomontana was named in 1998 in a major revision of the enoptes and battoides complexes by Gordon Pratt and John Emmel (p. 207ff. in the Systematics volume). This small blue was flying around host E. fasciculatum east of Walker Pass in Kern County on May 16, 2014.
Another E. bernardino inyomontana at Walker Pass, May 16, 2014.
©Dennis Walker