Delias heroni

Delias heroni is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by George Hamilton Kenrick in 1909. It is found in New Guinea (Arfak Mountains).[2]

Delias heroni
Delias heroni in Kenrick, 1909 Descriptions of Delias from New Guinea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Delias
Species:
D. heroni
Binomial name
Delias heroni
Kenrick, 1909 [1]
Synonyms
  • Delias heroni f. albo-oculatus Joicey & Noakes, 1915

The wingspan is about 45 mm. Males are white, with a black distal half on the forewings and a black border on the hindwings. The black area of the forewing extends into the end of the cell, and sometimes fills the base of cellule 3 and the outer two-thirds of 2. The hindwings have a broad black border between the apex and vein 4, and then becoming a heavy line to the inner angle. Females have the proximal areas creamy-white or tinged with yellow, the forewings with the black distal area more extended than in the males, and its edge less sharply defined. There are traces of two or three yellow subapical spots.[3]

References
  1. Kenrick, 1909 Descriptions of some new species of the genus Delias from North New Guinea, recently collected by Mr. C. E. Pratt Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (8) 4 : 176-183, Plate VI
  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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