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MCZ Entomology 165009

Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Date Collected:

[date unknown] prior to 2014-07-14

Central America: Antigua and Barbuda: Lesser Antilles: Antigua Island | Antigua

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Ent:165009 JSON-LD

Media type: image; Entomology 165009

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Shows Cataloged Item: MCZ:Ent:165009 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: Harvard180 [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 4.243 cm² By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: right forewing
wing area 4.296 cm² By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: left forewing
wing length 3.621 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: left forewing
wing length 3.577 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: right forewing
wing perimeter 8.468 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: left forewing
wing perimeter 8.443 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: right forewing
wing width 1.812 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: left forewing
wing width 1.785 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: right forewing

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  • Continent:
  • Central America
  • Country:
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Island Group:
  • Lesser Antilles
  • Island:
  • Antigua Island
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Antigua
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Antigua
  • Georeference:
  • 17.0738790, -61.795755 (Error radius: 15200m) By: Jeremy Kisala on 2020-03-27 (Source: GEOLocate)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • unknown
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1700-01-01 / 2014-07-14
  • Verbatim Date:
  • [no verbatim date data]
  • Collector:
  • Charles B. Cory

  • None

  • None

  • [Masked]

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