identification details:
family: Nymphalidae (brush-foots)
subfamily: Danainae (milkweed butterflies)
species: Danaus plexippus
common name: Monarch
sex: female (lacks black scent patch).
collection details:
date: 8.?.06
location/habitat: coneflower near a parking lot (franklin county)
remarks:
my field notes from last year have been lost, so some collection details are missing. this species is easily confused with limenitis archippus (the viceroy), but the viceroy has a black post-median line on its hindwing.
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