Delias duris
| Delias duris | |
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| In Hewitson's Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Delias |
| Species: | D. duris
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| Binomial name | |
| Delias duris | |
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Delias duris is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1861. It is found in the Australasian realm,[2] where it is only known from Ceram Island, Indonesia.
Description
Original Upperside. Male white, anterior wing with the costal and outer margins narrowly bordered with black except at the apex, where it is wider. Posterior wing with the outer margin slightly black. Underside black. Anterior wing with the base and a band near the apex (divided into five by the nervures) yellow irrorated with black. Posterior wing with the centre red-brown, an oval spot of scarlet near the base, and a zig-zag band of brick-red parallel to the outer margin. Expan. 3in. Hab. Ceram. In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson
Seitz notes males and females with moderately narrow red submarginal band on the hindwing and broadly developed black margins and specimens with very broad and light red bands, without or with only a little proximal black bordering and very large dark instead of light yellow subapical and cell-spots on the underside of the forewing (= aleria form. nov.).
References
- ^ Hewitson, 1861; Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies: Selected Chiefly from the Collections of W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson [1] This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
External links
- Delias at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms