Delias microsticha
| Delias microsticha | |
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| Delias microsticha flavopicta male | |
| figs 18,19 | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Delias |
| Species: | D. microsticha
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| Binomial name | |
| Delias microsticha Rothschild, 1904[1]
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Delias microsticha is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1904. It is endemic to New Guinea.[2]
Description
Original
Delias microsticha spec. nov. (PI. II. f. 18. 19, males).
Male. Wings, upperside, white. Forewing: costal edge and a broad distal border black; this border gradually narrowed posticad, reaching as far proximad as base of R1 and being only 1 to l.5 mm. broad at SM2, concave proximally, slightly incised at the veins. Hindwing with thin black distal border. Underside purplish olive-black, glossy on hindwing and at apex of forewing.
Forewing: a broad streak in cell, gradually narrowed to base, two spots beyond apex of cell, and a series of subapical respectively submarginal dots.
Hindwing: a basal costal spot crimson; a spot in middle of costal margin, a row of submarginal dots, a spot in cell beyond middle, and a row of thin short streaks on disc yellow.
Female. Not known.
Hab. Owgarra, north of head of Aroa River, May 1903. Several specimens.
Subspecies
- D. m. microsticha (Central Highlands, Papua New Guinea)
- D. m. flavopicta Jordan, [1912] (Arfak Mountains, Irian Jaya) [3]
- D. m. serratula Toxopeus, 1955 Weyland Mountains through the Snow Mountains to the Central Mountains, Irian Jaya [4]
- D. m. weja Mastrigt, 2006 (Foja Mountains, Irian Jaya) [5]
References
- ^ Rothschild, 1904 Lepidoptera from British New Guinea, collected by Mr. A. S. Meek Novitates Zoologicae 11 (1) : 310–322, pl. 2-3
- ^ Seitz, A., 1912–1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
- ^ Jordan, K. Novitates Zoologicae, Vol 18, (1911) 593 nom.nov.
- ^ Roepke, W.K.J. [Toxopeus Mss] 1955. The butterflies of the genus Delias Hübner (Lepidoptera) in Netherlands New Guinea. Nova Guinea 6(2): 185-260.
- ^ Mastrigt, Henk van 2006 New (sub)species of Delias (Hübner, 1819) from the Foja Mountains, Papua, Indonesia (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) Futao (51): 11-
External links
- Delias at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms