''Delias geraldina'' 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
Henley Grose-Smith Henley Grose-Smith (1833–1911) was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.
Grose-Smith described many new taxa of butterflies from his own collections and those of Walter Rothschild. His collections were sold to James John Joicey ...
in 1894. It is found in the
Australasian realm where it is
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to
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 ...
.
[ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. ''Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde'' 9]
Subspecies
*''D. g. geraldina'' (Central Highlands, Papua New Guinea)
*''D. g. emilia''
Rothschild & Jordan, 1904 Oetakwa River, Irian Jaya
*''D. g. masakoae''
Nakano, 1998 (Bintang, Kec Okbibab, Irian Jaya)
*''D. g. onin''
Yagishita, 2003 (Fakfak, Irian Jaya)
*''D. g. siderea''
Roepke, 1955 (Wamena, Irian Jaya)
*''D. g. vaneechoudi''
Roepke, 1955 (Weyland Mountains & Paniai, Irian Jaya)
*''D. g. vogelcopensis''
Yagishita, 1993 (Arfak & Wandammen Mountains, Irian Jaya)
References
External links
''Delias''at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
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geraldina
Butterflies described in 1894
Endemic fauna of New Guinea