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♂ Summer Azure

Celastrina neglecta

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Celastrina sp.

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Jeff Dreier
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Jeff Dreier
Not sure if it is C. ladon (spring azure) or C. neglecta (summer azure). Did you get a look at the upperside? That would determine the identification. I have seen a lot of spring azures, and this certainly looks like one, but summer azures are supposed to be similar below.

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