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MCZ Entomology 164602

Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Date Collected:

[date unknown] prior to 2014-07-25

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

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Ent:164602 JSON-LD

Media type: image; Entomology 164602

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Shows Cataloged Item: MCZ:Ent:164602 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: Harvard171 [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: Whit Farnum
wing area 6.188 cm² By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: right forewing
wing length 4.851 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: right forewing
wing perimeter 11.13 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: right forewing
wing width 1.962 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: right forewing

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  • 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
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Lakeba Law; Fijis
  • Georeference:
  • -18.211313, -178.79856 (Error radius: 5421m) By: Whit Farnum on 2020-11-04 (Source: GEOLocate)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • unknown
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1700-01-01 / 2014-07-25
  • Verbatim Date:
  • [no verbatim date data]
  • Collector:
  • William M. Mann

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