''Delias frater'' 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 Karl Jordan in 1911. It is found in

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a language of Papua New Guinea, which is spoken in surrounding areas of Port Moresby (Capital of Papua New Guinea). It is a simplified version of ...

. The

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is about 56 mm. Adults are similar to '' Delias eichhorni'', but the white area on the upper surface of the forewings is smaller and more diffuse at the edges, and sometimes so much diffused with black as to be almost entirely suppressed. The black discocellular bar of the underside of the forewings is very thin and angulate, being sometimes almost interrupted before R2 (vein 5).delias-butterflies
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Subspecies

*''D. f. frater'' (Mount Goliath, Langda, Irian Jaya; Western Province, Papua New Guinea) *''D. f. soror'' Toxopeus, 1944 (Korupun, Irian Jaya) *''D. f. far'' Schroder & Treadaway, 1982 (Paniaia, Irian Jaya)

References

External links

''Delias''
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' {{Taxonbar, from=Q2378160

frater Frater is the Latin word for brother. *In Roman Catholicism, a monk who is not a priest Frater may also refer to: People Surname * Alexander Frater (1937–2020), New Hebrides travel writer and journalist * Anne Frater, Scottish poet from Baybl ...

Butterflies described in 1911