🦋Viceroy (butterfly)
The viceroy is a North American butterfly. It was long thought to be a Batesian mimic of the monarch butterfly, but since the viceroy is also distasteful to predators, it is now considered a Müllerian mimic instead.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.
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- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumArthropoda
- ›classInsecta
- ›orderLepidoptera
- ›familyNymphalidae
- ›genusLimenitis
- ›speciesLimenitis archippus
- classInsects · Insecta
- superorderAmphiesmenoptera
- orderButterflies & moths · Lepidoptera
- suborderGlossata
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumArthropoda
- subphylumHexapoda
- classInsects · Insecta
- subclassPterygota
- superorderAmphiesmenoptera
- orderButterflies & moths · Lepidoptera
- suborderGlossata
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