Biology:Delias itamputi
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Short description: Species of butterfly
| Delias itamputi | |
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| In Seitz | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Delias |
| Species: | D. itamputi
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| Binomial name | |
| Delias itamputi Ribbe, 1900[1]
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Delias itamputi is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by Carl Ribbe in 1900. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea. Sexes dimorphic, male above pure white with black, oblique, very broad apical spot. Female above as beneath, only with yellowish white base to both wings and in the distal margin of the hindwing without the subterminal row of white patches. Flies in May. Aroa River, British New Guinea.[2] The name from the Malayan - black-white.
References
External links
| Wikispecies has information related to Delias itamputi |
- Delias at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Wikidata ☰ Q2189131 entry
