The Jamaican monarch (''Danaus cleophile'') is a species of milkweed

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

in the

nymphalid The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species have a red ...

Danainae Danainae is a subfamily of the family Nymphalidae, the brush-footed butterflies. It includes the Daniadae, or milkweed butterflies, who lay their eggs on various milkweeds on which their larvae (caterpillars) feed, as well as the clearwing butt ...

subfamily. It is found in the

Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares wit ...

Haiti Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...

, and

Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...

. The Danaus cleophile jamaicensis, or Jamaican butterfly, is generally a darker color and smaller compared to the other species of monarch butterflies.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.

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Danaus (butterfly) Butterflies of the Caribbean Butterflies of Jamaica Insects of the Dominican Republic Insects of Haiti Fauna of Hispaniola Butterflies described in 1819 Near threatened fauna of North America Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Godart {{Danainae-stub

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