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MCZ Entomology 164595

Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Date Collected:

[date unknown] prior to 2013-07-22

Oceania: Fiji: Eastern Division: Lau Province: Lau Island Group: Lakeba Island | Lakeba Island

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Ent:164595 JSON-LD

Media type: image; Entomology 164595

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Shows Cataloged Item: MCZ:Ent:164595 Danaus plexippus Voucher

Current Identification
Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Animalia Arthropoda Hexapoda Insecta Pterygota Lepidoptera Glossata Heteroneura Papilionoidea Nymphalidae Danainae Danaini
Common Name(s): Monarch; monarch butterfly; monarque
Determiner: [no agent data]
Nature of ID: legacy

  • researcher code: Harvard80 [Freedman et al, 2020]

Part Condition Disposition Count
whole animal (pinned) unknown in collection 1 History

Attribute Value Determination On
sex Female By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
life stage Adult By: Fred Taylor
wing area 7.325 cm² By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: left forewing
wing area 7.356 cm² By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: right forewing
wing length 5.349 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: left forewing
wing length 5.27 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: right forewing
wing perimeter 12.084 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: right forewing
wing perimeter 12.477 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: left forewing
wing width 2.137 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: left forewing
wing width 2.121 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: right forewing

  • None

  • Hawaii and Fiji Is.

  • None

  • Ocean:
  • Oceania
  • Country:
  • Fiji
  • State/Province:
  • Eastern Division
  • County:
  • Lau Province
  • Island Group:
  • Lau Island Group
  • Island:
  • Lakeba Island
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Lakeba Island
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Lakeba Lau; Fijis
  • Georeference:
  • -18.212291, -178.79547 (Error radius: 5421m) By: Jeremy Kisala on 2020-09-17 (Source: GEOLocate)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • unknown
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1700-01-01 / 2013-07-22
  • Verbatim Date:
  • [no verbatim date data]
  • Collector:
  • William M. Mann

  • None

  • None

  • [Masked]

  • None
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