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MCZ Entomology 165019

Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Date Collected:

[date unknown] prior to 2013-12-31

South America: Ecuador | [no specific locality data]

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Ent:165019 JSON-LD

Media type: image; Entomology 165019

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Shows Cataloged Item: MCZ:Ent:165019 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: Harvard102 [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
life stage Adult By: Fred Taylor
wing area 7.279 cm² By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: left forewing
wing area 7.506 cm² By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: right forewing
wing length 4.671 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: left forewing
wing length 4.723 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: right forewing
wing perimeter 11.162 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: left forewing
wing perimeter 11.2 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: right forewing
wing width 2.459 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: right forewing
wing width 2.424 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: left forewing

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  • Continent:
  • South America
  • Country:
  • Ecuador
  • dwc:highergeographyID:
  • http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/1000051 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:
  • Ecuador E. W. Rorer
  • Georeference:
  • -1.6486160, -78.400879 (Error radius: 388466m) By: Taylor Tai on 2017-01-04 (Source: GEOLocate)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1700-01-01 / 2013-12-31
  • Verbatim Date:
  • [no verbatim date data]
  • Collector:
  • Ethel W. Rorer

  • None

  • None

  • [Masked]

  • None
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