Delias iltis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Delias
Species:
D. iltis
Binomial name
Delias iltis
Ribbe, 1900[1]
Synonyms
  • Delias iltis bultemensis Lachlan, 2000
  • Delias iltis pseudoiltis Okano, 1989

Delias iltis is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by Carl Ribbe in 1900. It is endemic to New Guinea.[2]

The wingspan is about 60–64 mm. The forewings of the males have a white area extended to beyond the end of the cell, its edge sharply defined, angled in cellule 4, incurved from the angle to vein 3, excurved to vein 2 and curved inwards to the inner margin close to the tornus. The costa is black to the base and connected with a black discocellular bar. There are two white subapical dots in the black distal area. The hindwings have a narrow black marginal border, sometimes reduced to a mere line. The forewings of the females have more extended black which form a broad bar on the discocellulars which is sometimes only defined by a narrow and obscure white prolongation beyond the cell. There are three or four small white subapical spots. The hindwings have a much wider black border than in males, containing five white spots of moderate size.[3]

Subspecies

  • Delias iltis iltis (southern Highlands & Owen Stanley Range, Papua New Guinea)
  • Delias iltis leucotera Talbot, 1937 (Herzog Mtns, Papua New Guinea)
  • Delias iltis majai Yagishita, 1993 (Ilu-Mulia, Irian Jaya)
  • Delias iltis sibil van Mastrigt, 1995 (Abmisibil, Irian Jaya & north-east of Tabubil, Papua New Guinea)

References

  1. ↑ Ribbe, 1900 Neue Lepidopteren aus Neu-Guinea Insekten-Börse 17 (39): 308, (42): 329–330, (44): 346
  2. ↑ Seitz, A., 1912–1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
  3. ↑ delias-butterflies
Wikispecies has information related to Delias iltis.
  • Delias at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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