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Danaidae

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
FAMILY
Published in
<i>Icon. hist. L</i>é<i>pid. Europ.</i>, <b>1</b>(9): 84

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
family
Danaidae

Name

Homonyms
Danaidae
Common names
milkweed butterflies in English

Bibliographic References

  1. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Direction 99 Addition to the Official List of Fainily-group names in Zoology of the names of certain family-Gi Oup taxa belonging to the order Lepidoptera (class Insecta), the names of the type genera of which have already been placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology.Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1F, 161-174 (1958)
  2. LepIndex (2018 version).
  3. Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes.
  4. Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes.
  5. Pelham, Jonathan P., 2008: A catalogue of the butterflies of the United States and Canada with a complete bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera, vol. 40. xiv + 658.
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