Delias echidna

Delias echidna is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1861. It is found in the Indomalayan realm (Serang) and the Australasian realm (Ambon); that is it is found on both sides of the Wallace line.[2]

Delias echidna
In Hewitson's Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Delias
Species:
D. echidna
Binomial name
Delias echidna
(Hewitson, 1861)[1]
Synonyms
  • Pieris echidna Hewitson, 1861

The wingspan is about 64–70 mm.[3]

Subspecies
  • D. e. echidna (Ceram)
  • D. e. ambonensis Talbot, 1928 (Ambon)
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References
  1. Hewitson, 1861; Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies: Selected Chiefly from the Collections of W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson. [1]
  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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