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Delias enniana

Delias enniana is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by Charles Oberthür in 1880. It is found in New Guinea.

Description

Male: the upper surface white with sharply cut off, black distal margin to the forewing, which bears a few white dots. Female with black, mostly isolated transverse spot at the end of the cell, with fairly uniform black distal margin and mostly dull white upper surface to the forewing, upperside of the hindwing suffused with yellow.

Subspecies

  • D. e. enniana (western Irian Jaya)
  • D. e. contracta <small>Talbot, 1928</small> (Waigeu)
  • D. e. hidehitoi <small>Morita, 2003</small> (Salawati)
  • D. e. obsoleta <small>Rothschild, 1915</small> (Misool)
  • D. e. majoripuncta <small>Joicey & Talbot, 1922</small> (Numfoor Island)
  • D. e. reducta <small>Rothschild, 1915</small> (Eilanden River, south-eastern Irian Jaya, south-western Papua New Guinea)
  • D. e. ecceicei <small>Joicey & Talbot, 1916</small> (south-eastern Papua New Guinea)

References

External links

  • Delias at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms