Delias funerea
Delias funerea is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1894. It is found in the Australasian realm.[2]
| Delias funerea | |
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| In Henley Grose-Smith and William Forsell Kirby's Rhopalocera exotica | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Delias |
| Species: | D. funerea |
| Binomial name | |
| Delias funerea Rothschild, 1894[1] | |
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This species is closely related to Delias buruana and Delias duris, but can be distinguished by the grey suffusion on the outside of the underside of the hindwings, outside of the red submarginal band.[3]
Subspecies
- Delias funerea funerea (Halmahera)
- Delias funerea okko Nakano, 1986 (Bachan)
- Delias funerea moritai Yagishita, 1994 (Morotai)
References
- Rothschild W., 1894 On five new Delias collected by William Doherty in the east Novitates Zoologicae 1 (4) : 661-662
- Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
- delias-butterflies
External links
- Delias at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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