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Echo Azure - Hodges#4363.2 (Celastrina echo)
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Southwestern Azure (Celastrina echo cinerea)
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Copyright © 2013
Bob Barber
Celastrina -
Celastrina echo
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Oliver Lee State Park, Otero County, New Mexico, USA
February 4, 2013
Steve Cary -"to my knowledge, this is our earliest record of this species/complex by almost 3 weeks!"
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Contributed by
Bob Barber
on 6 February, 2013 - 8:43am
Last updated 14 June, 2014 - 4:56pm
taxon assignment based on previous ones
I don't see any difference between these and the ones in mountainous areas further west, and this name seems fine, but I don't know what connection they have to populations further to the east. Personally, I can't really see an obvious east / west division either.
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David J. Ferguson
, 12 April, 2014 - 2:39pm
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