''Delias anjae'' is a
butterfly
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...
in the family
Pieridae
The Pieridae are a large family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing about 1,100 species, mostly from tropical Africa and tropical Asia with some varieties in the more northern regions of North America and Eurasia.DeVries P. J. in Levi ...
. It was described by Schroder in 1977. It is found in
Arfak Mountains of
Irian Jaya.
The
wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ...
is about 50 mm. Adults are similar to ''
Delias sagessa
''Delias sagessa'' is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by Hans Fruhstorfer in 1910. It is found in New Guinea.
The wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the oth ...
''.
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References
External links
''Delias''
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
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anjae
Butterflies described in 1977