Delias singhapura
Species of butterfly
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Delias singhapura is a butterfly in the family Pieridae.It was described by Alfred Russel Wallace in 1867. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.[2]
| Delias singhapura | |
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| In Henley Grose-Smith and William Forsell Kirby's Rhopalocera exotica | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Delias |
| Species: | D. singhapura |
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| Delias singhapura | |
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Description
Thyca singhapura,n, sp. (PI. VII. fig. 2, $.)
Male.— Wings elongate; above, white, the costal margin and the outer half of the uppers dusky, nearly black at the apex, and with an ill-defined inner edge ; lower wings with a narrow interrupted black border behind, within which dusky patches of scales extend a short distance along the nervures. Beneath: upper wings white, the nervures of the upper half black-margined, the apex blackish, leaving a row of six distinct ovate white spots; lower wings bright yellow, the nervures black-bordered, and a rather broad black border round the hind margin enclosing a row of six whitish spots, the inner ones bifid, the outermost yellow-tinged.[1]
Expanse of wings 3 and 1/8 inches.[1]
Hab.—Singapore (Coll. Wall.).[1]
Subspecies
- Delias singhapura singhapura (Singapore, southern Malaysia, southern Peninsular Thailand)
- Delias singhapura acuta Rothschild, 1915 (Sumatra)
- Delias singhapura indistincta Fruhstorfer, 1897 (Borneo)
- Delias singhapura simeuluensis Kotaki, 1992 (Simeulue)
- Delias singhapura tsukadai Nakano, 1993 (Banyak)
- Delias singhapura yusukei Nakano, 1988 (Palawan)
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