Delias enniana
| Delias enniana | |
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| Delias enniana contracta male | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Delias |
| Species: | D. enniana
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| Binomial name | |
| Delias enniana | |
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Delias enniana is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by Charles Oberthür in 1880. It is found in New Guinea.
Description
Male: the upper surface white with sharply cut off, black distal margin to the forewing, which bears a few white dots. Female with black, mostly isolated transverse spot at the end of the cell, with fairly uniform black distal margin and mostly dull white upper surface to the forewing, upperside of the hindwing suffused with yellow. [2]
Subspecies
- D. e. enniana (western Irian Jaya)
- D. e. contracta Talbot, 1928 (Waigeu)
- D. e. hidehitoi Morita, 2003 (Salawati)
- D. e. obsoleta Rothschild, 1915 (Misool)
- D. e. majoripuncta Joicey & Talbot, 1922 (Numfoor Island)
- D. e. reducta Rothschild, 1915 (Eilanden River, south-eastern Irian Jaya, south-western Papua New Guinea)
- D. e. ecceicei Joicey & Talbot, 1916 (south-eastern Papua New Guinea)
References
- ^ Oberthür, 1880 Étude sur les collections de Lépidoptéres Océanicens appartenant au Musée Civique de Génes Ann. Mus. Stor. nat. Genova 15 : 461-530, pl. 2-4
- ^ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
External links
Wikispecies has information related to Delias enniana.
- Delias at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms