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NEW RECORDS OF PLANT SPECIES USED BY ADULT MONARCH BUTTERFLIES DANAUS PLEXIPPUS L. (LEPIDOPTERA: NYMPHALIDAE: DANAINAE) DURING MIGRATION IN MEXICO

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Eduardo Rivera García  and
Miguel E. Equihua Zamora
Eduardo Rivera García
Affiliation:
Institute de Ecología, A.C., Centro Regional Durango, Apdo. Postal 632, 34000 Durango, Dgo., México
Miguel E. Equihua Zamora
Affiliation:
Institute de Ecología, A.C., Centro Regional Durango, Apdo. Postal 632, 34000 Durango, Dgo., México
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Danausplexippus L. (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) is a cosmopolitan species, distributed in America wherever milkweed grows (Amett 1985). Its migratory phenomenon spans Canada, the United States, and Mexico and it has been considered endangered since the 1980s (IUCN 1983).

Ackery and Van-Wright (1984) compiled 45 species of food plants used by immature stages and 70 species of plants attractive to adults of the Monarch butterfly. Malcolm and Brower (1986) listed 28 host plant species recorded in nature. Lynch and Martin (1993) added six Asclepias species and observed larvae on three species of milkweed vine, Sarcostemma crispum and S. cynancroides in Texas, and Cynanchum laeve in Louisiana.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 129 , Issue 2 , April 1997 , pp. 375 - 376
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1997

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