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Delias alberti Rothschild 1904 |
| Subspecies : | alberti | - Rothschild 1904 | |||||||||
| guava | - Arora 1983 | ||||||||||
| tetamba | - Arora 1983 |
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| Wingspan : | c. 64mm | ||||||||||
| Range : | alberti | - Choiseul Island | |||||||||
| guava | - Bougainville Island | ||||||||||
| tetamba | - St. Isabel Island |
| Notes : |
| Distinguished by the underside of the hind wing bearing
a submarginal row of orange spots in a black border, the rest of the
wing being yellow. Talbot in his Monograph of 1937 queries why no allied forms were from the neighbouring islands to Choiseul Is. The discovery of the subspecies D.a.guava and D.a.tetamba have answered this point. However, it is still strange that related species have not as yet been found on the Bismarck Islands. Not common in collections. |
