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Spring Azure is a
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of the
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family. It is found in
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from
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and
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south of the tundra through most of the
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except the Texas coast, southern plain and peninsular Florida; south in the mountains to
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Since the publication of a monograph on the
Lycaenopsis Group of Lycaenid genera in 1983 by Eliot & Kawazoe,
ladon has been considered by some taxon authorities to be a subspecies of
Celastrina argiolus (Linnaeus, 1758). Other authorities still consider
C. ladon and related species
C. neglecta and
C. serotina, to be "full" species.
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