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.
Spring Azure (Celastrina ladon) One of the first butterflies I've seen this season (definitely the first i've captured on camera)! At a meadowy powerline cut, resting on some old flowerheads. Celastrina ladon,Geotagged,Spring Azure,United States,Winter

Naming

*Summer Azure
⤷ Cherry Gall Azure
⤷ Holly Azure

Since the publication of a monograph on the ''Lycaenopsis'' Group of Lycaenid genera in 1983 by Eliot & Kawazoe, ''ladon'' has been considered by some taxonomic authorities to be a subspecies of ''Celastrina argiolus'' . Other authorities still consider ''C. ladon'' and related species ''C. neglecta'' and ''C. serotina'', to be "full" species.

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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderLepidoptera
FamilyLycaenidae
GenusCelastrina
SpeciesLadon
Photographed in
United States of America