Delias hypomelas
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| In Seitz | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Delias |
| Species: | D. hypomelas |
| Binomial name | |
| Delias hypomelas Rothschild & Jordan, 1907[1] | |
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Delias hypomelas is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It was described by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan in 1907. It is endemic to New Guinea.[2]
The wingspan is about 60-64 mm. Males are creamy-white with a broad black distal area on the forewings and a narrow black margin on the hindwings. The black area on the forewings reaches the discocellulars. The hindwings have the costa yellow at the base, forming a well-defined rounded spot. There is a white submarginal line, broken at the veins, from vein 7 to 2 or just below it, as well as a black discal patch, just entering the end of the cell, usually lying between veins 3 and 5 or 6. Females have orange subapical dots on the upper surface of the forewings and traces of two more, and the proximal area on both wings is white.[3]
Subspecies
- D. h. hypomelas (Central Highlands, Papua New Guinea)
- D. h. conversa Jordan, [1912] (Mount Goliath, Irian Jaya; Western Province, Papua New Guinea)
- D. h. rubrostriata Joicey & Talbot, 1922 (Weyland Mountains, Irian Jaya)
- D. h. rawlinsoni Talbot, 1928 (Rawlinson Mountains, Papua New Guinea)
- D. h. fulgida Roepke, 1955 (south of Idenburg: central-northern Irian Jaya)
- D. h. lieftincki Roepke, 1955 (Ibele Valley, Wamena, Irian Jaya)
References
- ↑ Rothschild & Jordan, 1907 Lepidopteren aus Neu-Guinea Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1907: 189-198
- ↑ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
- ↑ delias-butterflies
External links
- Delias at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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