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Topic: Monarch or Milkweed

Hi Chris

There is a common name of "Monarch or Milkweed" for Danaus plexippus - I think this should be removed/made redundant/marked as not well formed?

It's coming out as the recommended common name for D. plexippus in Recorder and you get this tautologically on the NBN Atlas:

species: Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758)  – Monarch
Monarch, Milkweed, Monarch or Milkweed

Charlie Barnes
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Re: Monarch or Milkweed

I agree - I have made it ill-formed and a junior vernacular synonym now :)

Chris Raper, Manager of the UK Species Inventory, Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity,
Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD.  (tel: 020 7942 5894)
also Tachinid Recording Scheme (http://tachinidae.org.uk/)

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Re: Monarch or Milkweed

Thanks!

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