Delias hypomelas

Delias hypomelas is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan in 1907. It is endemic to New Guinea.[2]

Delias hypomelas
In Seitz
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Delias
Species:
D. hypomelas
Binomial name
Delias hypomelas
Synonyms
  • Delias itamputi hypomelas Rothschild & Jordan, 1907

The wingspan is about 60–64 mm. Males are creamy-white with a broad black distal area on the forewings and a narrow black margin on the hindwings. The black area on the forewings reaches the discocellulars. The hindwings have the costa yellow at the base, forming a well-defined rounded spot. There is a white submarginal line, broken at the veins, from vein 7 to 2 or just below it, as well as a black discal patch, just entering the end of the cell, usually lying between veins 3 and 5 or 6. Females have orange subapical dots on the upper surface of the forewings and traces of two more, and the proximal area on both wings is white.[3]

Subspecies
  • D. h. hypomelas (Central Highlands, Papua New Guinea)
  • D. h. conversa Jordan, [1912] (Mount Goliath, Irian Jaya; Western Province, Papua New Guinea)
  • D. h. rubrostriata Joicey & Talbot, 1922 (Weyland Mountains, Irian Jaya)
  • D. h. rawlinsoni Talbot, 1928 (Rawlinson Mountains, Papua New Guinea)
  • D. h. fulgida Roepke, 1955 (south of Idenburg: central-northern Irian Jaya)
  • D. h. lieftincki Roepke, 1955 (Ibele Valley, Wamena, Irian Jaya)

References
  1. Rothschild & Jordan, 1907 Lepidopteren aus Neu-Guinea Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1907: 189–198
  2. Seitz, A., 1912–1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
  3. delias-butterflies
  • Delias at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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