Echo Azure

Celastrina echo

''Celastrina echo'', known generally as the echo azure or western azure, is a species of blue in the family of butterflies known as Lycaenidae. It is found in North America.

The MONA or Hodges number for ''Celastrina echo'' is 4363.2.
A Western Spring Azure Butterfly. This butterfly refused to land on a flower long enough for me to take a good photo but was delighted to sit on the zipper of a purse! It next landed on my hand that was holding the camera making the taking of any more photos impossible. Canada,Celastrina echo,Echo Azure,Geotagged,Spring

Naming

These four subspecies belong to the species ''Celastrina echo'':
⤷  ''Celastrina echo cinerea'' i b
⤷  ''Celastrina echo echo'' i b
⤷  ''Celastrina echo nigrescens'' i b
⤷  ''Celastrina echo sidara'' i b

References:

Some text fragments are auto parsed from Wikipedia.

Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderLepidoptera
FamilyLycaenidae
GenusCelastrina
SpeciesC. echo
Photographed in
Canada
United States of America