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Delias hypomelas Rothschild & Jordan 1907 |
| Subspecies | hypomelas | - Rothschild & Jordan 1907 | |||||||||
| conversa | - Jordan 1911 | ||||||||||
| rubrostriata | - Joicey & Talbot 1922 | ||||||||||
| rawlinsoni | - Talbot 1928 | ||||||||||
| lieftincki | - Roepke 1955 | ||||||||||
| fulgida? | - Roepke 1955 |
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| Wingspan : | 60- 64mm | |||||||||
| Range : | hypomelas | - Central Highlands, Papua New Guinea | ||||||||
| conversa | - Mt Goliath, Irian Jaya;Western Prov. PNG | |||||||||
| rubrostriata | - Weyland Mtns, Irian Jaya | |||||||||
| rawlinsoni | - Rawlinson Mtns, Papua New Guinea | |||||||||
| lieftincki | - Ibele Valley, Wamena, Irian Jaya | |||||||||
| fulgida | - S. of Idenburg: C. N. Irian Jaya |
| Notes : |
| A species characterised by the smoky-black underside.
The underside has a small yellow costal spot, a black distal patch and a
broken white submarginal line. As its name would suggest, the subspecies D. h. rubrostriata has the hind wing marked with red stripes. It is the link between this species and Delias argentata. The species is closely related to both D. heroni and D itamputi. A not uncommon species in collections. Male: Upperside creamy-white with broad black distal area on the fore wing and narrow black margin on the hind wing. The black area on the fore wing reaches the discocellulars. Underside smoky-black. Fore wing with the inner margin white, sometimes some white scaling extending to vein 2. Two yellow subapical spots in 6 and 8, the upper one much the larger, sometimes a yellow dash in 5. Hind wing with costa yellow at the base, forming a well-defined rounded spot. A white submarginal line, broken at the veins, from vein 7 to 2 or just below it. A black discal patch, just entering the end of the cell, usually lying between veins 3 and 5 or 6. Female: (Original description vide Jordan, 1911, Novitates Zoologicae xviii) -"This sex is represented in the Tring Museum by two specimens, the only ones known. Both have orange subapical dots on the upper surface of the fore wing and traces of two more, and the proximal area on both wings is white, not yellow as in the female of itamputi. In one specimen the white area reaches, on the fore wing, from the hind margin to near the apex of the cell, occupying the greater part of the cell, the black outer border measuring 4.5mm. at SM²;the black marginal band of the hind wing is 5.5 mm. broad in front and reduced to a line at the anal margin. The second specimen is black for the greater part, the white area of the fore wing being restricted to the base and hindmargin and that of the hind wing extending only to the apex of the cell, both areas being very diffuse at the edges and much powdered with black scales." |
