Queen
Danaus gilippus
20.4025, -87.3233
Field Notes
Description:
Photo take in a jungle path, this is a small one having breakfast on a wild flower.Upperside is chestnut brown; black borders of forewings have 2 rows of white spots; white spots are scattered at the forewing apex. Underside of hindwing has black veins; black borders of both wings have 2 rows of white spots. Upperside of male hindwing has a black scale patch.
Habitat:
Open, sunny areas including fields, deserts, roadsides, pastures, dunes, washes, and waterways. Resident in 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.
Reference Links:
Queen (butterfly)
Species ID Suggestions
Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedJanuary 5, 2013
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