what kingdom does the monarch butterfly belong to
Background Information: The Monarch butterfly belongs the kingdom Animalia, the phylum Anthropoda, the class Insecta, the order Lepidoptera, and the family Nymphalidae (Smith 2014). The genus and the epithet combine to yield the scientific name Danaus plexippus . Because it is multicellular, it belongs to the domain Eukaryota (Smith 2014).