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Danaus gilippus

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Description:

wingspan of 70–88 mm. It is orange or brown with black wing borders and small white forewing spots on its dorsal wing surface, and reddish ventral wing surface fairly similar to the dorsal surface

Habitat:

including fields, deserts, roadsides, pastures, dunes, washes, and waterways. Extreme southern United States south through tropical lowlands of the West Indies and Central America to Argentina. Regular stray and sometime colonist in the plains; rarely along Atlantic coastal plain to Massachusetts and the Great Plains.

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PublishedOctober 11, 2020

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