Dymasia dymas imperialis (Bauer, 1959)
(Tiny Checkerspot)

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Synonymy

(From: A Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada, Jonathan P. Pelham)

Genus Dymasia Higgins, 1960

Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 112(14): 455-456. Type-species: Melitaea dymas W. H. Edwards, 1877, Can. Entomol. 9(6): 190-191, by original designation.

Dymasia dymas (W. H. Edwards, 1877)

Can. Entomol. 9(10): 190-191.

Original Combination: Melitaea dymas

Type Locality: “San Antonio, Texas” [Bexar County]

Types: Lectotype in CMNH, designated by Higgins, 1969, Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 112(14): 457-458; figured by F. Brown, 1966, Trans. amer. ent. Soc. 92(3): 381, fig. 7 ♀ D&V.

=    larunda (Strecker, [1878])

Lepid. Rhop. Het. (14): 130.

Original Combination: Melitaea Larunda

Type Locality: Not stated; “vicinity of New Braunfels and San Antonio, Southwestern Texas” implied from introductory text. [Comal and Bexar counties]

Types: Syntypes in FMNH.

=    senrabii (W. Barnes, 1900)

Can. Entomol. 32(2): 42, 43.

Original Combination: Melitaea Senrabii

Type Locality: “Corpus Christi, Texas” [Nueces County]

Types: Holotype in USNM.

Dymasia dymas imperialis (Bauer, 1959)

Lepid. News 12(3/4): 98; figured in Howe (1975), Butts. N. Am.: pl. 1, figs. 18 ♂ D, 19 ♀ D&V.

Original Combination: Microtia dymas imperialis

Type Locality: “Palm Springs, Riverside Co., California”

Types: Holotype in LACM.

                         =    ‡”jacintoi” (Gunder, 1924)

Entomol. News 35(5): 154, pl. 2, fig. B ♂ D (“holotype”).

Original Combination: Melitaea chara ab. ♂ jacintoi

Type Locality: “Palm Springs, Riverside County, California”

Types: “Holotype” in AMNH; figured by J. A. Comstock (1927), Butts. Calif.: pl. 37, fig. 12 ♂ D.

                         =    ‡”nitela” (J. A. Comstock, 1926)

Bull. South. Calif. Acad. Sci. 25(1): 33; figured by J. A. Comstock (1927), Butts. Calif.: pl. 37, fig. 13 ♂ V (“holotype”).

Original Combination: Melitaea chara ab. nitela

Type Locality: “Near Palm Springs, Coachella Valley, Calif.” [California]

Types: “Holotype” in LACM.

Bibliography

Bauer, David L. 1959. A new subspecies of Microtia dymas from southern California. Lepidopterists= News 12(3/4): 97-100 {1958, 26 Jan 1959} [description of Melitaea chara imperialis] 

Comstock, John Adams. 1926. Studies in Pacific Coast Lepidoptera (Continued). Thirteen new species or aberrations of California butterflies. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 25(1): 29-34, 48. {Jan-Apr, 30 Mar 1926} [description of Melitaea chara ab. nitela] 

Comstock, John Adams. 1927. Butterflies of California. A popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of California embracing all of the 477 sSpecies and varieties at present recorded from the state. Author, Los Angeles, California. 334 pp., 63 pls. {1927} 

Comstock, John Adams and Charles M. Dammers. 1932. Metamorphoses of five California diurnals (Lepidoptera). Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 31(2): 33-45, pls. 13-23. {May-Aug, 20 Aug 1932} 

Gunder, Jean Daniel. 1924. Several new aberrant Lepidoptera (Rhopalocera) from California. Entomological News 35(5): 153-158, pl. 2. {[8] May 1924} [description of Melitaea chara ab. ♂ jacintoi]

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