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MCZ Entomology 165062

Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Date Collected:

1953-05

Oceania: Australia: New South Wales | Ryde

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Ent:165062 JSON-LD

Media type: image; Entomology 165062

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Shows Cataloged Item: MCZ:Ent:165062 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
Previous Identification
Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758
Animalia Arthropoda Hexapoda Insecta Pterygota
Determiner: [no agent data]
Nature of ID: expert ID
Remarks: Danaida plexippus, L.

  • researcher code: Harvard214 [Freedman et al, 2020]

Part Condition Disposition Count
whole animal (pinned) good in collection 1 History
Remarks: Reintegrated 2021-09-10. -RLHS

Attribute Value Determination On
sex Female By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
sex Male By: Rachel L. Hawkins Sipe 2021-09-10
date emerged May, 1953 Adult emerged By: Fred Taylor
life stage Adult By: Fred Taylor

  • None

  • Asclepias curassavica

  • None

  • Ocean:
  • Oceania
  • Country:
  • Australia
  • State/Province:
  • New South Wales
  • dwc:highergeographyID:
  • http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/7001828 linked data icon
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Ryde
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Ryde, N.S. W.
  • Georeference:
  • -33.815200, 151.101200 (Error radius: 1480m) By: Evan Hoki on 2017-05-23 (Source: GEOLocate)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • unknown
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1953-05-01 / 1953-05-31
  • Verbatim Date:
  • May 1953
  • Collector:
  • N. Zeck

  • None

  • None

  • [Masked]

  • None
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