Delias talboti    Joicey & Noakes 1915
Subspecies :                    No subspecies

                        recto                    Male                  verso                                                   recto                   Female                  verso
                                          16 February 1999                        Biak Island, Indonesia                         22 August 2002
                                      © Clive Pratt/Les Day                                                                                        ©Les Day
Wingspan : c 63 mm
Range        : talboti - Biak Island, Indonesia
Notes         :
A rare species, with the female being particularly so, only to be found on the small Indonesian island of Biak.

Male: Upperside white. Fore wing with narrow black apical and marginal border ending in a point at vein 2.

Underside black. fore wing with basal half to near end of cell, base of 3, part of 2, most of lower median area, and inner margin white. Basal two-thirds of cell tinged with yellow. Four apical white spots and a faint spot in 3 near margin. Hind wing with cellule 8 yellow to the base. A submarginal row of square-shaped grey-white spots in cellule 1c-6, placed near the margin. Inner margin faintly scaled with grey-white anteriorly, and with dark yellow at the base.

Female: Wings rounded. Upperside black; basal area greyish-white with some yellow scaling, rendered dark by the underlying ground-colour. Fore wing with a submarginal row of 6 white spots which are larger towards the apex. Hind wing with a similar row of smaller spots of nearly equal size. Inner margin grey-white; proximal area dusted with yellow.

Underside black. Fore wing with the greater part of cell to below median yellow. Submarginal spots as above but larger and better defined. A distinct spot touching margin, on the submedian fold. Hind wing as in the male but with stronger yellow basal dusting. Abdomen yellow below.