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Danaus chrysippus (Plain Tiger)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Dorippus tiger (Danaus dorippus) is a butterfly belonging to the danaine group of the Brush-footed butterflies family.
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Infraspecies

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  2.756 inches (.07 m)

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Biviere di Lentini, tratto mediano e foce del Fiume Simeto e area antistante la foce 12271 Italy  
Calamocarro-Benzú 1487 Spain  
L-Imgiebah / Tal-Mignuna Area 436 Malta  
Rdumijiet ta' Malta: Ir-Ramla tac-Cirkewwa sa Il-Ponta ta' Benghisa 5724 Malta  

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Arocatus rusticus1
Danaus plexippus (Monarch Butterfly)5

Predators

Merops philippinus (Blue-tailed Bee-eater)[5]
Neolophonotus schoemani[6]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1BUTTERFLIES OF AUCKLAND, D.R. Cowley and J.M. Cowley, TANE 29, 1983, pp. 181-192
2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
3HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
4Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
6Predator-Prey Database for the family Asilidae (Hexapoda: Diptera) Prepared by Dr. Robert Lavigne, Professor Emeritus, University of Wyoming, USA and Dr. Jason Londt (Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg)
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0