Bibliography for Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758)

• Ackery, P.R. & Vane-Wright, R.I. 1984. Milkweed Butterflies their Cladistics and Biology being an account of the natural history of the Danainae, a subfamily of the Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae. London : British Museum (Natural History) 425 pp.
• Bryk, F. 1937. Family Danainae. Lepidopterorum Catalogus. Pt 78 pp. 1–432; Corrigenda Pt 80 pp. 641–642.
• Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls.
• Dunn, K.L. & Dunn, L.E. 1991. Review of Australian Butterflies: distribution, life history and taxonomy. Family Nymphalidae. Melbourne : K. & L. Dunn Vol. 4 513-660 pp.
• Edwards, E.D. 1996. Nymphalidae. pp. 243-248, 359-360 in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds). Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM.
• Fabricius, J.C. 1793. Entomologia Systematica Emendata et Aucta. Secundum, Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adjectis synonimis [sic], locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Hafniae : Christ. Gottl. Proft. Tom. 3(Pars 1) iv 487pp.
• Fabricius, J.C. in Bryk, F. 1938. Systema Glossatorum. [Facsimile]. Im Anhang: J. Chr. Fabricius: Rechenschaft an das Publicum über seine Classification der Glossaten. pp. 13–112.
• Fruhstorfer, H. 1910. The Indo-Australian Rhopalocera. [Danaidae]. pp. 192-215 in Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World: a systematic description of the hitherto known macrolepidoptera. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Vol. 9 1197 pp.
• Gunder, J.D. 1927. New transition forms or "abs" and their classification (Lepid., Rhopalocera). Entomological News 38(5): 129-138 1 pl.
• Hulst, G.D. 1886. Three new varieties, and one new species of Lepidoptera. Entomologica Americana 2(9): 182
• James, D.G. 1982. A transient non-breeding population of Danaus plexippus (L.) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) near Picton, New South Wales. Australian Entomological Magazine 8(6): 96-99
• James, D.G. 1982. Ovarian dormancy in Danaus plexippus (L.) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) — oligopause not diapause. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 21: 31-35
• James, D.G. 1984. Migration and clustering phenology of Danaus plexippus (L.) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in Australia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 23: 199-204
• James, D.G. 1986. Studies on the migration of Danaus plexippus (L.) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in the Sydney area. Australian Entomological Magazine 13(1, 2): 27-31
• James, D.G. 1988. Migration and behaviour of non-reproductive Danaus plexippus (L.) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales. Australian Entomological Magazine 15(1): 25-30
• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp.
• Malcolm, S.B. & Zalucki, M.P. (eds) 1993. The Biology of Conservation of the Monarch Butterfly. Los Angeles : Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County xii 419 pp.
• Miller, L.D. & Brown, F.M. 1981. A Catalogue/Checklist of the Butterflies of America North of Mexico. Memoir No. 2. Florida : Lepidopterists' Society vii 280 pp.
• Strecker, F.H.H. 1900. Lepidoptera, Rhopaloceres and Heteroceres, indigenous and exotic; with descriptions and colored illustrations. Reading : Pennsylvania Suppl. 3 pp. 13–37.
• Urquhart, F.A. 1960. The Monarch Butterfly. Toronto : University of Toronto Press 361 pp.
• Waterhouse, G.A. & Lyell, G. 1914. The Butterflies of Australia: a monograph of the Australian Rhopalocera introducing a complete scheme of structural classification, and giving descriptions and illustrations of all the butterflies found in Australia, including a number now recorded for the first time. Sydney : Angus & Robertson 239 pp. 38 pls + 3 unnumbered colour pls. [Date published 25 July 1914]
• Zalucki, M.P. & Kitching, R.L. 1982. Dynamics of oviposition in Danaus plexippus (Insecta: Lepidoptera) on milkweed, Asclepias spp. Journal of Zoology, London 198: 103-116

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