Delias dice

Delias dice
In Vollenhoven's Essai d'une Faune Entomologique de l'Archipel Indo-Néerlandais
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Delias
Species:	D. dice
Binomial name
Delias dice (Vollenhoven, 1865 [1]
Synonyms
Pieris diceVollenhoven, 1865 Delias mitisanaStrand, 1916 Delias mitisana ab. pictulaStrand, 1916 Delias mitisana f. leucanaStrand, 1916 Delias dice f. nigroapicalisRoepke 1955

Delias dice is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven in 1865. It is endemic to New Guinea in the Australasian realm. ^[2]

Subspecies

• Delias dice dice (Central Irian Jaya) On the under surface of the female the black distal area of the hindwing is widened, sharply defined proximally and bears, like the apical area of the forewing, a row of 5—-6 yellowish patches in the middle.
• Delias dice fulvoflavaRothschild, 1915 (Snow Mtns, Irian Jaya) ^[3]
• Delias dice latimarginataJoicey & Talbot, 1925 (Weyland Mtns, Irian Jaya) ^[4]
• Delias dice mitisanaStrand, 1916 (Vogelkop, Irian Jaya & Waigeu Island) ^[5]
• Delias dice rectifasciaTalbot, 1928 (Rossel Island)
• Delias dice samaraiJoicey & Talbot, 1916 (south-western Papua New Guinea)

References

1. Essai d'une Faune Entomologique de l'Archipel Indo-Néerlandais, Seconde monographie: Famille des Piérides Faune ent. 2 (Monogr. Pierid.) : 1-70, pl. 1-7
2. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
3. Rothschild, W., 1915 in Rothschild & Durrant Lepidoptera of the British Ornithologists' Union and Wollaston Expeditions in the Snow Mountains, Southern Dutch New Guinea : 1-146, : 147-148, : 149-162, : 163-168, : 169-182, : pl. 1-2
4. Joicey. J.J. & Talbot, G. 1925 Notes on some Lepidoptera, with descriptions of new forms Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) 16 (96) : 633-653
5. Strand, E. 1916 Abbildungen und Beschreibungen neuer und wenig bekannter Lepidoptera aus der Sammlung W. Niepelt Lepidoptera Niepeltiana (2) : 1-26, pl. 13-17

External links

• Delias at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms