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Danaus affinis

Description

DANAUS AFFINIS (FABRICIUS, 1775)

Type locality: Australia. Polytypic species (A & V-W) with c. 45 (see Morishita, 1985: 451 for a distribution map) or perhaps more realistically ~30 subspecies (D’Abrera, 1971, 1982). Range: Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Java eastward to Solomon Is., New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Philippines, N & E Australia.

Notes

Published as part of Smith, David A. S., Lushai, Gugs & Allen, John A., 2005, A classification of Danaus butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) based upon data from morphology and DNA, pp. 191-212 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 144 (2) on page 205, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00169.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5434140

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Fabricius
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Nymphalidae
Genus
Danaus
Species
affinis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Danaus affinis (Fabricius, 1775) sec. Smith, Lushai & Allen, 2005

References

  • Morishita K. 1985. Danaidae. In: Tsukada E, ed. Butterflies of the South East Asian Islands. II [English edn]. Tokyo: Plapac, 439 - 628.
  • D'Abrera B. 1971. Butterflies of the Australian region. Melbourne: Lansdowne.
  • D'Abrera B. 1982. Butterflies of the Oriental region. Part I. Papilionidae, Pieridae and Danaidae. Ferny Creek, Australia: Hill House.