Delias diaphana
Species of butterfly
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Delias diaphana is a species of pierine butterfly endemic to the Philippines, where it is found only on Mindanao.[1]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Delias |
| Species: | D. diaphana |
| Binomial name | |
| Delias diaphana Semper, 1878 | |
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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.
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