Celastrina ladon

"Spring azure" redirects here. For the other butterfly with this common name, see Holly blue.
Spring azure
Male, Cougar Mountain Regional Wildland Park, Washington, United States
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Celastrina
Species: C. ladon
Binomial name
Celastrina ladon
(Cramer, 1780)
Subspecies[1]
C. l. lucia – boreal spring azure
C. l. nigrescens – western spring azure

Celastrina ladon, the spring azure, is a butterfly of the Lycaenidae family. It is found in North America from Alaska and Canada south of the tundra, through most of the United States except the Texas coast, southern plain and peninsula Florida; south in the mountains to Colombia.

Male, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Since the publication of a monograph on the Lycaenopsis group of lycaenid genera in 1983 by Eliot & Kawazoe,[2] C. ladon has been considered by some taxonomic authorities to be a subspecies of C. argiolus (Linnaeus, 1758). Other authorities still consider C. ladon and related species C. neglecta and C. serotina, to be "full" species.[3][4][5][6][7]

Mer Bleue Conservation Area, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Similar species

References

  1. ↑ Entomology Collection, E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum
  2. ↑ Eliot, J. N. and Kawazoe, A., 1983. Blue butterflies of the Lycaenopsis group: 1-309, 6 pls. London.
  3. ↑ Cherry Gall Azure full species status, BugGuide.com
  4. ↑ Spring Azure, Butterflies of Canada
  5. ↑ Spring Azure, Butterflies and Moths of North America
  6. ↑ Spring Azure, Encyclopedia of Life
  7. ↑ Celastrina at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
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