MCZ Entomology 165072

Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Date Collected:

1898-10-20/1898-11-30

Oceania: Samoa: Samoa Islands: Upolu Island | Upolu Island

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Ent:165072 JSON-LD

Media type: image; Entomology 165072

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Shows Cataloged Item: MCZ:Ent:165072 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: Harvard111 [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 Male By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
sex Male By: Rachel L. Hawkins Sipe 2021-09-10
life stage Adult By: Fred Taylor
wing area 7.293 cm² By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: right forewing
wing area 7.563 cm² By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: left forewing
wing length 5.011 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: left forewing
wing length 4.893 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: right forewing
wing perimeter 11.682 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: left forewing
wing perimeter 11.591 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: right forewing
wing width 2.407 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: left forewing
wing width 2.319 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: right forewing

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  • Ocean:
  • Oceania
  • Country:
  • Samoa
  • Island Group:
  • Samoa Islands
  • Island:
  • Upolu Island
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Upolu Island
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Upolu,; Samoan Isl.
  • Georeference:
  • -13.916667°, -171.75000° (Error radius: 37929m) By: Evan Hoki on 2017-05-23 (Source: GEOLocate)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • unknown
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1898-10-20 / 1898-11-30
  • Verbatim Date:
  • Oct 20 - Nov 30; 1898
  • Collector:
  • William McMichael Woodworth

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  • [Masked]

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