Celastrina echo

Celastrina echo
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Lycaenidae
Genus:Celastrina
Species: C. echo
Binomial name
Celastrina echo
(W. H. Edwards, 1864)

Celastrina echo, known generally as the echo azure or western azure, is a species of blue in the family of butterflies known as Lycaenidae.[1][2] It is found in North America.[1]

The MONA or Hodges number for Celastrina echo is 4363.2.[3]

Subspecies

These four subspecies belong to the species Celastrina echo:

  • Celastrina echo cinerea (W. H. Edwards, 1883) i b (southwestern azure)
  • Celastrina echo echo (W. H. Edwards, 1864) i b (Pacific azure)
  • Celastrina echo nigrescens (J. Fletcher, 1903) i b (northwestern azure)
  • Celastrina echo sidara (Clench, 1944) i b (Rocky Mountain azure)

Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[4] g = GBIF,[5] b = Bugguide.net[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Celastrina echo Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
  2. 1 2 "Celastrina echo Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
  3. ↑ "North American Moth Photographers Group, Celastrina echo". Retrieved 2018-05-02.
  4. ↑ "Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2018-05-02.
  5. ↑ "GBIF". Retrieved 2018-05-02.

Further reading

  • Grote, Aug.R.; Robinson, C.T. (1868). List of the Lepidoptera of North America. American Entomological Society.
  • Heppner, J.B. (2003). "Lepidoptera of Florida. Part 1. Introduction and catalog" (PDF). Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Areas. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. 17. ISSN 0066-8036.
  • Hodges, Ronald W., ed. (1983). Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico: Including Greenland. E.W. Classey and The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. ISBN 9780860960164.
  • Opler, Paul A. (1992). A Field Guide to Eastern Butterflies. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-63279-X.
  • Opler, Paul A. (1999). A Field Guide to Western Butterflies (2nd ed.). Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-79151-0.
  • Pelham, Jonathan P. (2008). "A catalogue of the butterflies of the United States and Canada with a complete bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature". Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera. 40. ISSN 0022-4324.
  • Pohl, Greg; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico (Report). doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287.


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