Delias diaphana

Delias diaphana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Delias
Species:	D. diaphana
Binomial name
Delias diaphana Semper, 1878
Synonyms
Delias morishitaiNakano, 1993

Delias diaphana is a species of pierine butterfly endemic to the Philippines, where it is found only on Mindanao. ^[1]

Description

D. diaphana Semper. above scarcely distinguishable from descombesi , but beneath entirely black with abnormally large cell-spot on the forewing and similarly large submarginal patches on both wings.Upper surface of the forewing yellowish with black discocellular and black distal margin with yellow spots; hindwing white with whitish submarginal patches. The under surface with broad black postdiscal bands on both wings. A magnificent, large species.

The wingspan is 80–90 mm. ^[2]

Subspecies

• Delias diaphana diaphana (Mt. Apo, Mindanao)
• Delias diaphana sagaguchiiTsukada & Nishiyama, 1980 ^[3] (Masara Maine, south-eastern Mindanao)
• Delias diaphana basilisaeSchroder, 1893 ^[4] (Mt.Malindang-Zamboanga, western Mindanao)
• Delias diaphana yataiNakano, 1993 ^[5] (Tandag, north-eastern Mindanao)

References

1. Delias funet.fi
2. "Delias of the World". Archived from the original on 2016-08-08. Retrieved 2016-01-19.
3. Tsukada, E. & Nishiyama, Y., 1980. On some species of butterflies from Indonesia and the Philippines with the description of new species and new subspecies (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Memoirs of the Tsukada Collection 2: 1-23
4. Schroder, H. G. in Schröder, H.G. & Treadaway, C. G. 1983. Neue Lepidoptera von den Philippinen, 9. Entomologische Zeitschrift 93(11): 154-160, 4 figs.
5. Nakano, S. (1993). Description of a new subspecies of Delias diaphana Semper from N.E. Mindanao. [Nakano, S. 1994: An illustrated list of the genus Delias Hübner of the World, Futao]

External links

• images representing Delias diaphana at Encyclopedia of Life