Tarucus rosacea

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| image = Mediterranean pierrot (tarucus rosaceus).jpg

| image_caption = In Zighy Bay, Musandam Peninsula, Oman

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| taxon = Tarucus rosacea

| authority = (Austaut, 1885)[http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/lycaenidae/polyommatinae/tarucus/index.html Tarucus] at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera

| synonyms =

• Lycaena theophrastus var. rosacea Austaut, 1885
• Tarucus mediterraneae Bethune-Baker, 1918

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Tarucus rosacea, the Mediterranean Pierrot or Mediterranean tiger blue, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Mauritania, Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea, Burkina Faso, northern Ivory Coast, northern Ghana, northern Nigeria, Niger, northern Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, northern Uganda, north-western Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti and Arabia.[http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/lycaenidae_polyommatini_1.doc Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Tribe Polyommatini (part 1)] The habitat consists of Sudan savanna and the Sahel.

Adults feed from the flowers of Ziziphus species.

The larvae feed on Ziziphus jujuba. They are associated with ants of the Plagiolepis, Camponotus and Monomorium genera.