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  Sighting 1119289

Northern Azure
Celastrina lucia

Observation date: June 04, 2017
Submitted by: duff
Specimen type: Photograph
Observation notes: There were dozens of these fluttering around the gravel parking lot of the trailhead.
Status: Resident
Verified by: mikefisher
Verified date: July 26, 2017
Coordinator notes: Some are calling our Azures by two different species names, this one (lucia) and the other is echo. So you identified the correct assemblage of blues. I use the name lucia for all of ours presently but our knowledge about this group of blues seems to be continually increasing so in the future, echo may apply to some of these blues in certain portions of Colorado. Mike
Checklist region(s): Larimer County, United States, Colorado