''Celastrina echo'', known generally as the echo azure or western azure, is a species of
blue
Blue is one of the three primary colours in the RYB colour model (traditional colour theory), as well as in the RGB (additive) colour model. It lies between violet and cyan on the spectrum of visible light. The eye perceives blue when ...
in the
butterfly
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprise ...
family
Lycaenidae
Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterf ...
.
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The MONA or Hodges number for ''Celastrina echo'' is 4363.2.][
Celastrina_echo-cinerea_puddling.jpg, ]mud-puddling
Mud-puddling, or simply puddling, is a behaviour most conspicuous in butterflies, but occurs in other animals as well, mainly insects; they seek out nutrients in certain moist substances such as rotting plant matter, mud and carrion and they suck ...
Subspecies
These four subspecies belong to the species ''Celastrina echo'':
* ''Celastrina echo cinerea'' (W. H. Edwards, 1883) (southwestern azure)
* ''Celastrina echo echo'' (W. H. Edwards, 1864) (Pacific azure)
* ''Celastrina echo nigrescens'' (J. Fletcher, 1903) (northwestern azure)
* ''Celastrina echo sidara'' (Clench, 1944) (Rocky Mountain azure)
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Celastrina
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Butterflies described in 1864
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