Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Nymphalidae → subfamily Danainae → genus Danaus → subgenus Danaus → species Danaus plexippus

Species name(s)

Danaus (Danaus) plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758) = Danais archippus = Papilio plexippus Linnaeus, 1758 = Danais plexippus = Anosia plexippus = Danaus (Danaus) plexippus.

Monarch.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:8548

Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 1.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic, Nearctic, Neotropic, Ethiopic, Indo-Malayan, Australian.

Primary colors

Orange, Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Detailed information with references

Synonyms and combinations

Danais archippus. [0].

Distribution

Belgium, Britain, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Iceland, Spain, the Netherlands, France. [1].
Azores, Belgium, the British Isles, Germany, Gibraltar, Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), the Canary Islands, Madeira, The Netherlands, the Channel Islands, Portugal (mainland), Northern Ireland, France (mainland) Sweden. [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Asclepias curassavica. [28].

Subspecies of Danaus plexippus

Danaus plexippus leucogyne (Butler, 1884).
D. p. megalippe (Hübner, [1826]).
D. p. nigrippus (Haensch, 1909).
D. p. plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758).
D. p. portoricensis Clark, 1941.
D. p. tobagi Clark, 1941.

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Boris Novikov, Konstantin Kraevsky.

Text data: Peter Khramov, Dmitriy Pozhogin.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

[1] O. Karsholt, J. Razowski (eds.), 1996. The Lepidoptera of Europe: a distributional checklist
[10] de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2011) Fauna Europaea version 2.4 (faunaeur.org)
[28] Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (leps.it), 2012
Dmitriy Pozhogin, personal communication