Blue-eyed Sailor

Dynamine dyonis · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Nymphalidae

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Blue-eyed Sailor
Photo: John Rosford, CC BY

The blue-eyed sailor is a tropical brushfoot butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It occurs in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

The blue-eyed sailor belongs to the tropical brushfoot group of butterflies (family Nymphalidae).

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

This species is found in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

Its native range includes North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 1 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Texas.

Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.

Source: GBIF

Months it is reported in the US

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Source: GBIF

More photos

Blue-eyed Sailor photo 2
Photo: John Rosford, CC BY
Blue-eyed Sailor photo 3
Photo: John Rosford, CC BY
Blue-eyed Sailor photo 4
Photo: johnyochum, CC BY
Blue-eyed Sailor photo 5
Photo: Nick Block, CC BY

Questions people ask

Where does the blue-eyed sailor live?

It is found in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Same family (Nymphalidae)

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Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamine_dyonis

Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia

Text written 2026-10-29 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-29.

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