Delias lemoulti   Talbot 1931
Subspecies :                           No subspecies

                         recto              Male               verso                                         recto              Female             verso
                                     Timor, Indonesia                                                               Mt. Mutis, Timor, Indonesia
                                   14 November 1999
                                          ©Les Day                                                                             ©Robert Gotts
Wingspan : 45-50 mm
Range        : lemoulti - East Timor
Notes         :
A rare species, the female particularly so. Unlike any other member of the group.

The species was named after E. le Moult, a well-known Paris dealer of the early part of the 20th. century, from whose collection, the nomotype was purchased by the British Museum. At his request the new species was named after him. However, the species was actually discovered by a Mrs. Walsh, who lived in Java, and sent her collections from Timor to Mr. le Moult. Talbot, in his Monograph regrets that the species which he himself named, was not named after the discoverer. Fortunately, we do now have a species named Delias walshae which can be found in the Clathrata group.

The species enters into a mimetic relationship with Cepora laeta, which also has a mimetic association with Delias splendida.