Delias madetes Godman & Salvin 1878

Subspecies : madetes - Godman & Salvin 1878
honrathi - Mitis 1893
neohannoverana - Rothschild 1915

recto                         Male                      verso

                                                        ©Les Day                                            ©Robert Gotts
Wingspan : 75-85 mm
Range        : madetes - New Ireland
honrathi - New Britain
neohannoverana - New Hanover
Notes         : 
This species is restricted to the Bismarck Islands. Talbot has suggested that it is probably derived from some Moluccan form which has now disappeared, and which was also the progenitor of D.aruna.