Delias singhapura

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
In Henley Grose-Smith and William Forsell Kirby's Rhopalocera exotica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Delias
Species:
D. singhapura
Binomial name
Delias singhapura
(Wallace, 1867)[1]
Synonyms
  • Thyca singhapura Wallace, 1867

The wingspan is about 82–86 mm. Male are white, with black veins on the forewings for the greater part, and on the hindwings distally. The forewings have a blackish apical area reaching the cell. The hindwings have a narrow blackish marginal border from the anal angle to cellule 3, and small blackish marginal marks on veins 3-5. Females are similar to the males, but the apical area of the forewings is more rounded and the upperside is more strongly clouded with black.[3]

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)

References
  1. Wallace, A. R. 1867 On the Pieridae of the Indian and Australian Regions Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (3) 4 (3): 301-416, pl. 6-9
  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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