Assertion: monarch | /r/CapableOf | serve as model
Facets:
value: for several mimetic species
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Being distasteful due to ingestion by larvae and sequestration by adults of cardenolides that are toxic to birds, monarch serves as a model for several mimetic species and is frequently confused with the viceroy (Limenitis archippus (Cramer, 1776)) and queen (Danaus gilippus (Cramer, 1775)) butterflies.
text: It had been long accepted that the viceroy practiced Batesian mimicry, with the monarch and the queen serving as models.