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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies and Skippers (Papilionoidea) » Blues, Coppers, Hairstreaks, Harvesters (Lycaenidae) » Blues (Polyommatinae) » Azures (Celastrina) » Lucia Azure - Hodges#4363.1 (Celastrina lucia)
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Presumably Celastrina ladon, male - Celastrina lucia - male
Copyright © 2020 Michael Patrikeev

Presumably Celastrina ladon, male - Celastrina lucia - Male
Marlborough Forest, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
May 18, 2020
Presumably Celastrina ladon; first blue I've seen this year
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Contributed by Michael Patrikeev on 18 May, 2020 - 5:29pm
Last updated 18 May, 2020 - 11:51pm

Azur lucia
En français.
… Ilze V-G., 7 August, 2020 - 2:06pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Lee Penner, 18 May, 2020 - 11:51pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you! It appears C. lado
Thank you! It appears C. ladon has been split.
… Michael Patrikeev, 19 May, 2020 - 9:13am login or register to post comments

 
Maybe all are the same
Schmidt & Layberry in ZooKeys 2016 #584 state that in Ontario we have Celastrina lucia in the spring and C. neglecta in the summer. Both double brooded.
They also believe a pocket of Celastrina ladon does occur around Long Point. Apparently this species feeds only on Flowering Dogwood Cornus florida.
Also noted on page 142, “Nearly all samples of C. lucia, C. neglecta and C. echo shared an identical DNA barcode.”
The "Final Tree" on DNA at BOLD for ladon, neglecta & lucia are identical.
Kinda leaves ya hangin’
… Lee Penner, 19 May, 2020 - 1:29pm login or register to post comments

 
Very interesting...So, C. lad
Very interesting...So, C. ladon is Carolinian then, or at least the Long Point population; certainly no Flowering Dogwood anywhere near Marlborough Swamp or in the Ottawa Valley. Local Celastrina likely have blueberries as a host plant. Interestingly, only males were around yesterday; not one female... perhaps female generally hatch later (I do not know much about ecology of the Lycaenidae, apart from that their larvae are raised by ants).
… Michael Patrikeev, 19 May, 2020 - 3:35pm login or register to post comments

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