Delias waterstradti
| Delias waterstradti | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Delias |
| Species: | D. waterstradti
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| Binomial name | |
| Delias waterstradti Rothschild, 1915
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Delias waterstradti is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1915.[1]It is endemic to Halmahera in the Indomalayan realm.
Description
Delias waterstradti, sp. n. Male Above canary-yellow tinged with green; apex and costal area of fore wing and margin of hind wing brown. Below, fore wing black-brown, cell densely and rest of basal 1/2 of wing sparsely powdered with golden yellow; beyond cell and along nervures the yellow powdering is more densely present, almost appearing like a band of yellow patches ; a subapical band of large golden-yellow patches. Hind wing, basal 3/5 golden yellow, powdered in basal 1/2 with sooty black; outer 3/5 black-brown, with submarginal row of large golden-yellow patches.
Taxonomy
Delias waterstradti is a member of the Delias nyse species group.
References
- ^ <Rothschild, 1915 Notes on and Descriptions of Delias, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 15 (85) : 172-180. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
External links
- / delias-butterflies
- Delias at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms