''Delias hypomelas'' 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

Walter Rothschild Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild, (8 February 1868 – 27 August 1937) was a British banker, politician, zoologist and soldier, who was a member of the Rothschild family. As a Zionist leader, he was present ...

and Karl Jordan in 1907. 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 ...

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 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 60–64 mm.

Subspecies

*''D. h. hypomelas'' (Central Highlands, Papua New Guinea) *''D. h. conversa'' Jordan,

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/small> (Mount Goliath, Irian Jaya; Western Province, Papua New Guinea) *''D. h. rubrostriata'' Joicey & Talbot, 1922 (Weyland Mountains, Irian Jaya) *''D. h. rawlinsoni'' Talbot, 1928 (Rawlinson Mountains, Papua New Guinea) *''D. h. fulgida'' Roepke, 1955 (south of Idenburg: central-northern Irian Jaya) *''D. h. lieftincki'' Roepke, 1955 (Ibele Valley, Wamena, Irian Jaya)

References

External links

''Delias''
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' {{Taxonbar, from=Q2409742 hypomelas Butterflies described in 1907 Endemic fauna of New Guinea