Delias diaphana
| Delias diaphana | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Delias |
| Species: | D. diaphana
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| Binomial name | |
| Delias diaphana Semper, 1878
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Delias diaphana is a species of pierine butterfly endemic to the Philippines, where it is found only on Mindanao.[1]
Description
D. diaphana Semper. above scarcely distinguishable from descombesi, but beneath entirely black with abnormally large cell-spot on the forewing and similarly large submarginal patches on both wings.Upper surface of the forewing yellowish with black discocellular and black distal margin with yellow spots; hindwing white with whitish submarginal patches. The under surface with broad black postdiscal bands on both wings. A magnificent, large species.
Subspecies
- Delias diaphana diaphana (Mt. Apo, Mindanao)
- Delias diaphana sagaguchii Tsukada & Nishiyama, 1980 [3](Masara Maine, south-eastern Mindanao)
- Delias diaphana basilisae Schroder, 1893 [4](Mt.Malindang-Zamboanga, western Mindanao)
- Delias diaphana yatai Nakano, 1993 [5] (Tandag, north-eastern Mindanao)
References
- ^ Delias funet.fi
- ^ "Delias of the World". Archived from the original on 2016-08-08. Retrieved 2016-01-19.
- ^ Tsukada, E. & Nishiyama, Y., 1980. On some species of butterflies from Indonesia and the Philippines with the description of new species and new subspecies (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Memoirs of the Tsukada Collection 2: 1-23
- ^ Schroder, H. G. in Schröder, H.G. & Treadaway, C. G. 1983. Neue Lepidoptera von den Philippinen, 9. Entomologische Zeitschrift 93(11): 154-160, 4 figs.
- ^ Nakano, S. (1993). Description of a new subspecies of Delias diaphana Semper from N.E. Mindanao. [Nakano, S. 1994: An illustrated list of the genus Delias Hübner of the World, Futao]