Celastrina ladon

Spring azure
	Male, Cougar Mountain Regional Wildland Park, Washington, United States
	Female, Panama
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Celastrina
Species:	C. ladon
Binomial name
	Celastrina ladon; (Cramer, 1780)

Celastrina ladon, the spring azure, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. 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.

Since the publication of a monograph on the Lycaenopsis group of lycaenid genera in 1983 by Eliot & Kawazoe,[1] 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.[2][3][4][5][6]

Similar species

Cherry gall azure (C. serotina)
Holly azure (C. idella)
Lucia azure (C. lucia)
Summer azure (C. neglecta)

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References

Eliot, J. N. and Kawazoe, A., 1983. Blue butterflies of the Lycaenopsis group: 1-309, 6 pls. London.
Cherry Gall Azure full species status, BugGuide.com
Spring Azure, Butterflies of Canada
Spring Azure Archived 2009-03-13 at the Wayback Machine, Butterflies and Moths of North America
Spring Azure, Encyclopedia of Life
Celastrina at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera

External links

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[1] Eliot, J. N. and Kawazoe, A., 1983. Blue butterflies of the Lycaenopsis group: 1-309, 6 pls. London.

[2] Cherry Gall Azure full species status, BugGuide.com

[3] Spring Azure, Butterflies of Canada

[4] Spring Azure Archived 2009-03-13 at the Wayback Machine, Butterflies and Moths of North America

[5] Spring Azure, Encyclopedia of Life

[6] Celastrina at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera