Monarch (Danaus plexippus)
Monarch (Danaus plexippus)
Monarch (Danaus plexippus)
Monarch (Danaus plexippus)
Monarch (Danaus plexippus)
Monarch (Danaus plexippus)

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Monarch (Danaus plexippus)


Photo © Peter Eeles
FamilyNymphalidae
SubfamilyDanainae
GenusDanaus
Speciesplexippus
Authority(Linnaeus, 1758)
English NameMonarch
European Red List 2010Not Applicable (NA)
EU 27 Red List 2010Not Applicable (NA)
European Red List 2025Not Applicable (NA)
EU 27 Red List 2025Not Applicable (NA)
Habitats Directive
Bern Convention
CITES

Description

To be completed.

Distribution

Belgium (Irregular Vagrant) / Belgium: Flanders (Irregular Vagrant) / Denmark (Irregular Vagrant) / France (Irregular Vagrant) / France: Mainland (Irregular Vagrant) / Iceland (Irregular Vagrant) / Ireland (Irregular Vagrant) / Netherlands (Irregular Vagrant) / Portugal / Portugal: Mainland / Portugal: Azores / Portugal: Madeira Islands / Spain / Spain: Mainland / Spain: Canary Islands / Spain: Sp. North African Territories / Sweden (Irregular Vagrant) / United Kingdom (Irregular Vagrant) / United Kingdom: Great Britain (Irregular Vagrant) / United Kingdom: Northern Ireland (Irregular Vagrant) / United Kingdom: Isle of Man (Irregular Vagrant) / United Kingdom: Guernsey (Irregular Vagrant) / United Kingdom: Jersey (Irregular Vagrant) / United Kingdom: Gibraltar /

Larval Foodplants

#OrderFamilyGenusSpeciesVernacular NameLink
1GentianalesApocynaceaeAsclepiascurassavica
2GentianalesApocynaceaeCynanchumacutum
3GentianalesApocynaceaeGomphocarpusfruticosus
4GentianalesApocynaceaeGomphocarpusphysocarpus
5MalpighialesEuphorbiaceaeEuphorbiaSpurges
6MalvalesMalvaceaeGossypiumarboreum
7MalvalesMalvaceaeGossypiumherbaceum