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Celastrina neglecta, the summer azure, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in North America. Layberry, Hall, and Lafontaine, in The Butterflies of Canada, describe the species: The upper surface is pale blue with an extensive dusting of white scales, especially on the hindwing.
Celastrina ladon, the spring azure or echo blue, 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 , also on Molokai island, Hawaii.
The spring flight of summer azure associates with black cherry and does not diapause before the summer flight, which begins after the end of the American holly azure flight. Appalachian azures and cherry gall azures have ranges west of the range of American holly azures. [1]
Celastrina serotina, the cherry gall azure, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found across North America as far north as the treeline . Its flight time is between mid-May and mid-June in eastern Ontario after the spring azure and before the summer azure . [ 2 ]
They typically have an incomplete dark dorsal band and the greener caterpillars may have pale white markings. [2] [3] The Appalachian azure's larvae are specialists, living on and only eating the flowers of the black cohosh (Actaea racemosa). [2] [3] The adult azure typically lives for a few weeks from mid-May to late June. [4]
Celastrina lucia, the lucia azure, northern azure, eastern spring azure or northern spring azure, is a species of butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found eastern North America, ranging from the Maritimes south through the Appalachian Mountains to West Virginia. [2] The wingspan is between 22–35 mm. Adults are sexually dimorphic. They ...
Celastrina echo, known generally as the echo azure or western azure, is a species of blue in the butterfly family Lycaenidae. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Celastrina echo have been observed in mostly western regions of the United States, including California, Oregon, Arizona, New Mexico, and Montana.
By the fourth instar, the caterpillar is about 1 cm long. They range from pale green to pale yellow, with a dorsal stripe. Come late summer, they will form small cocoons out of silk for hibernation, and will stay motionless for ten months. Their cocoons resemble dead calyces, and thus provide camouflage from predators. [5]