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MCZ Entomology 181566

Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Date Collected:

1984-07-07

North America: United States: Colorado | Grand Canyon

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Ent:181566 JSON-LD

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Shows Cataloged Item: MCZ:Ent:181566 Danaus plexippus Voucher

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Shows Cataloged Item: MCZ:Ent:181566 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

  • additional number: J. E. Friedel:120-1-5
  • researcher code: Harvard243 [Freedman and Dingle, 2018]

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
sex Male By: Fred Taylor
collection J. E. Friedel Collection By: Fred Taylor
life stage Adult By: Fred Taylor
wing area 8.411 cm² By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: right forewing
wing area 8.088 cm² By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: left forewing
wing length 5.136 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: left forewing
wing length 5.102 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: right forewing
wing perimeter 11.963 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: left forewing
wing perimeter 12.105 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: right forewing
wing width 2.499 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: left forewing
wing width 2.544 cm By: Micah G. Freedman 2019-01-09
Remarks: right forewing

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  • Continent:
  • North America
  • Country:
  • United States
  • State/Province:
  • Colorado
  • dwc:highergeographyID:
  • http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/7007158 linked data icon
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Grand Canyon
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Grand Canyon; Colorado
  • Locality Remarks:
  • is Colorado a reference to the river?
  • Georeference:
  • 39.1823890, -108.92300 (Error radius: 15131m) By: Patrick McCormack on 2020-07-10 (Source: GEOLocate)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • unknown
  • Collected On:
  • 1984-07-07
  • Verbatim Date:
  • 7 July 1984
  • Collector:
  • J. E. Friedel

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  • [Masked]

  • None
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