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MCZ Entomology 165025

Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Date Collected:

1935-04-24

Central America: Honduras: Bay Islands: Roatan Island | French Harbor

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Ent:165025 JSON-LD

Media type: image; Entomology 165025

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Shows Cataloged Item: MCZ:Ent:165025 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: Harvard72 [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 8.251 cm² By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: right forewing
wing area 7.97 cm² By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: left forewing
wing length 5.158 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: right forewing
wing length 4.965 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: left forewing
wing perimeter 12.025 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: left forewing
wing perimeter 12.301 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: right forewing
wing width 2.399 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: left forewing
wing width 2.491 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: right forewing

  • None

  • None

  • None

  • Continent:
  • Central America
  • Country:
  • Honduras
  • Island Group:
  • Bay Islands
  • Island:
  • Roatan Island
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • French Harbor
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • French Harbor; Roatan Bay Is.; Hond
  • Georeference:
  • 16.3546120, -86.457795 (Error radius: 911m) By: Taylor Tai on 2017-03-22 (Source: GEOLocate)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • unknown
  • Collected On:
  • 1935-04-24
  • Verbatim Date:
  • IV.24.35
  • Collector:
  • D. Marston Bates

  • None

  • None

  • [Masked]

  • None
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