Delias madetes

Delias madetes is a butterfly in the family Pieridae.It was described by Frederick DuCane Godman and Osbert Salvin in 1878. It is found in the Australasian realm.[2]

Delias madetes
In Seitz
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Delias
Species:
D. madetes
Binomial name
Delias madetes
(Godman & Salvin, 1878[1]
Synonyms
  • Pieris madetes Godman & Salvin, 1878
  • Delias honrathi Mitis, 1893

The wingspan is about 75–85 mm.[3]

Subspecies
  • Delias madetes madetes (New Ireland)
  • Delias madetes honrathi Mitis, 1893 (New Britain)
  • Delias madetes neohannoverana Rothschild, 1915 (New Hanover)

References
  1. Godman & Salvin, 1878 Descriptions of some apparently new Species of Butterflies from New Ireland and New Britain, sent by the Rv. G. Brown Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1878: 733–735
  2. Seitz, A., 1912–1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
  3. delias-butterflies
  • Delias at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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