Delias rosenbergii
| Delias rosenbergii | |
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| In Vollenhoven's Essai d'une faune entomologique de l'archipel Indonéerlandais | |
| D. r. rosenbergii, Ombulodata, North Gorontalo | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Delias |
| Species: | D. rosenbergii
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| Binomial name | |
| Delias rosenbergii (Vollenhoven, 1865)[1]
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Delias rosenbergii, Rosenberg's painted Jezebel, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven in 1865. It is found on the Wallace line.[2] The name honours William Frederick Henry Rosenberg.
Description
D. rosenbergi Voll. (= chrysoleuca Mitis) (52 a) is the Celebes representative of the hyparete-group, a stately species, above in the female almost entirely suffused with black-grey. — In the north of the island occurs lorquini Fldr. (= catamelas Stgr.) (52 b), where the species ascends from the sea-coast to 3000 ft. The black bands on the underside of both wings are broader, the cell-region with more extended black scaling.The wingspan is about 70–75 mm.[3]
Subspecies
- D. r. rosenbergi (northern Sulawesi)
- D. r. lorquini C. & R. Felder, [1865] [4](Menado)
- D. r. chrysoleuca Mitis, 1893 [5](southern Sulawesi)
- D. r. salayerana Rothschild, 1915 [6] (Selajar)
- D. r. munaensis Nakano, 1988 (Muna, Buton)
Biology
In South Celebes rosenbergi flies all the year round, in large numbers in March and April at the end of the heaviest rainy season. The larva does not differ from that of despoliata from Sumatra, except that it is larger, dark yellow with light yellow and white hairs, and lives on Loranthus, which is parasitical on mango trees. The butterflies first appear very early in the day about 6 or half past 6 o’clock, and then again late in the evening (Martin)[7]
Taxonomy
rosenbergi is a member of the hyparete species group.
References
- ^ Vollenhoven, 1865 Essai d'une Faune Entomologique de l'Archipel Indo-Néerlandais, Seconde monographie: Famille des Piérides Faune ent. 2 (Monogr. Pierid.) : 1–70, pl. 1-7
- ^ Seitz, A., 1912–1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20160807030431/http://delias-butterflies.com/groups/species-groups/group-xxii-hyparete-group/delias-rosenbergi/ delias-butterflies]
- ^ C. & R. Felder, [1865] Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Behilfen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Band 2. Abtheilung 2.
- ^ Mitis, H.von 1893 Revision des Pieriden-Genus Delias Dt. ent. Z. Iris 6 (1): 97-144 (1893), (2): 145-153 (1894)
- ^ Rothschild, W. 1915 Notes on and Descriptions of Delias Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 15 (85) : 172-180
- ^ 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
- Delias at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms