Tiny Checkerspot

Dymasia dymas · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Nymphalidae

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Tiny Checkerspot
Photo: Isaac Ethington, CC BY

The tiny checkerspot is also known as the dyman checkerspot.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

The tiny checkerspot is also called the dyman checkerspot.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

It lives from the southern United States down to Central America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

Its native range extends from the southern United States through Central America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 4 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Arizona, California, Texas, New Mexico.

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

Tiny Checkerspot photo 2
Photo: Mike Ostrowski, CC BY-SA
Tiny Checkerspot photo 3
Photo: Sam Kieschnick, CC BY
Tiny Checkerspot photo 4
Photo: Rachel Allingham, CC BY
Tiny Checkerspot photo 5
Photo: Katja Schulz, CC BY

Same family (Nymphalidae)

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Sources

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

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

Text written 2026-10-24 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-24.

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