Jamaican monarch

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Jamaican monarch
Male
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 2.3) [1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Danaus
Species:	D. cleophile
Binomial name
Danaus cleophile (Godart, 1819)

The Jamaican monarch (Danaus cleophile) is a species of milkweed butterfly in the nymphalid Danainae subfamily. It is found on the Caribbean islands of Hispaniola (in the Dominican Republic and Haiti), and Jamaica. ^{[2] [1]}

Taxonomy

There are two subspecies recognized:

• D. c. cleophile (Godart, 1819), from Hispaniola
• D. c. jamaicensis Turner & Turland, 2018, from Jamaica

The latter is smaller, and darker in pigmentation. ^[3]

See also

• Monarch butterfly

References

1. Lepidoptera Specialist Group (1996). "Danaus cleophile". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 1996: e.T6247A12591735. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T6247A12591735.en . Retrieved 11 November 2021.
2. Vane-Wright, R.I.; Ackery, P.R.; Turner, T. (1992). "Anetia jaegeri, Danaus cleophile and Lycoriea cleobaea from Jamaica (Nymphalidae: Danainae)". Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society. 46 (4): 273–279.
3. Turner, Thomas W, and Vaughan A Turland. “A Newly Recognized Subspecies of Danaus Kluk; Danaus cleophile jamaicensis (Nymphalidae: Danainae) from Jamaica, West Indies.” 2018, doi: 2575-9256.