Danaus affinis (Fabricius, 1775)

Dang, Hiep Ngoc, Huynh, Hoan Duc, Phan, Trung Van, Bui, Kiet Nguyen The, Luong, Thao Thi Thu & Nguyen, Vu Dang Hoang, 2025, Butterflies (Lepidoptera) of the Can Gio Mangrove Biosphere Reserve, Vietnam, Biodiversity Data Journal 13, pp. e 165844-e 165844 : e165844-

Danaus affinis (Fabricius, 1775)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 5; sex: male; occurrenceID: CANGIOMB 0008; Taxon: genus: Danaus ; specificEpithet: affinis ; scientificNameAuthorship: (Fabricius, 1775); Location: country: Vietnam; stateProvince: Ho Chi Minh City; Event: eventDate: 04/09/2024

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: CANGIOMB 0012; Taxon: genus: Danaus ; specificEpithet: melanippus; scientificNameAuthorship: Cramer, 1777; Location: country: Vietnam; stateProvince: Ho Chi Minh City; Event: eventDate: 25/05/2025

Notes

Recorded in Bui (2007), Monastyrskii and Devyatkin (2016), India Biodiversity Portal (2024), GBIF - Global Biodiversity Information Facility (2025), Inayoshi (2025) and this study (Fig. 5 D).

Figures

Figure 5. Family Nymphalidae: A Acraea terpsicore ♂ (left), ♀ (right); B Amathusia phidippus ♀; C Cethosia cyane ♂; D Danaus affinis ♀; E Hypolimnas bolina ♂; F Danaus chrysippus ♀; G Danaus genutia ♀; H Melanitis leda; I Neptis hylas ♀. Photos by Dang H. N.