Delias ladas

Delias ladas is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by Henley Grose-Smith in 1894. It is endemic to New Guinea.[2]

Delias ladas
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Delias
Species:
D. ladas
Binomial name
Delias ladas

The wingspan is about 65–70 mm. Adults may be distinguished by their almost uniformly black hindwing underside marked only by a small yellow spot on the margin.[3]

Subspecies
  • D. l. ladas (West Papua New Guinea)
  • D. l. levis Joicey & Talbot, 1922 (Arfak and Weyland Mountains, Irian Jaya)
  • D. l. waigeuensis Joicey & Talbot, 1917 (Waigeu Island)
  • D. l. wamenaensis Morita, 1993 (Ilaga - Wamena, Irian Jaya)
  • D. l. yapenensis Yagishita, 1998 (Yapen Island)
  • D. l. fakfakensis Yagishita, 2003 (Fakfak, Irian Jaya)
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References
  1. Grose-Smith, 1894 Descriptions of nine new species of butterflies, from the Sattelberg, near Finsch Hafen, German New Guinea, in the collections of the Honourable Walter Rothschild and H. Grose Smith, captured by Captains Cayley Webster and Cotton Novitates Zoologicae 1 (3): 585-590
  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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