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  Sighting 1318424

Tiny Checkerspot
Dymasia dymas

Observation date: August 12, 2021
Submitted by: jamesvonloh
Specimen type: Photograph
Observation notes: A few checkerspots emerging to perch and warm in early morning following a cool, damp night at the mouth of Achenbach Canyon. The morning was cool, damp, and humid with lower light quality in shaded part of canyon mouth,
Status: Resident
Verified by: stevecary
Verified date: January 10, 2022
Coordinator notes: excellent, Jim, thank you. the Rio Grande valley may be a transition point between ssp. dymas and ssp. chara. if so, your photos may well help someone figure out what happens, phenotypically, in that transition.
Checklist region(s): United States, New Mexico, Doña Ana County

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