Delias ninus

Delias ninus, the Malayan Jezebel, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by Alfred Russel Wallace in 1867. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.[2]

Delias ninus
Delias ninus alluviorum Fruhstorfer, 1905 in Seitz
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Delias
Species:
D. ninus
Binomial name
Delias ninus
(Wallace, 1867)[1]
Synonyms
  • Thyca ninus Wallace, 1867
  • Delias parthenia Staudinger, 1892

The wingspan is about 70–85 mm.[3]

Subspecies
  • Delias ninus alluviorum Fruhstorfer, 1905 (western Sumatra)
  • Delias ninus babai Yagishita, 1997 (Myanmar)
  • Delias ninus ninus (Peninsular Malaysia)
  • Delias ninus parthenia Staudinger, 1892 (northern Borneo)
  • Delias ninus saranensis Yagishita, 1993 (Mt. Saran, western Kalimantan)
  • Delias ninus shoujii Yagishita, 1993 (Mt. Bawang, western Kalimantan)

References
  1. Wallace, A.R. 1867 On the Pieridae of the Indian and Australian Regions Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (3) 4 (3) : 301–416, pl. 6-9
  2. Seitz, A., 1912–1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
  3. delias-butterflies
  • Delias at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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