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MCZ Entomology 165013

Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Date Collected:

[date unknown] prior to 2013-12-31

Central America: Honduras | [no specific locality data]

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Ent:165013 JSON-LD

Media type: image; Entomology 165013

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Shows Cataloged Item: MCZ:Ent:165013 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: Harvard125 [Freedman et al, 2020]

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

Attribute Value Determination On
sex Male By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
collection A. G. Weeks Collection By: Fred Taylor
life stage Adult By: Fred Taylor
wing area 9.182 cm² By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: right forewing
wing area 9.062 cm² By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: left forewing
wing length 5.259 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: left forewing
wing length 5.31 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: right forewing
wing perimeter 12.553 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: right forewing
wing perimeter 12.436 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: left forewing
wing width 2.715 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: right forewing
wing width 2.692 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: left forewing

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  • Continent:
  • Central America
  • Country:
  • Honduras
  • dwc:highergeographyID:
  • http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/7005554 linked data icon
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • [no specific locality data]
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Honduras
  • Georeference:
  • 14.9787750, -86.263794 (Error radius: 338746m) By: Jeremy Kisala on 2020-06-26 (Source: GEOLocate)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • unknown
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1700-01-01 / 2013-12-31
  • Verbatim Date:
  • [no verbatim date data]
  • Collecting Event Remarks:
  • [no agent data] event
  • Collector:
  • [no agent data]

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  • [Masked]

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