''Delias ladas'' 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

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 ...

. 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 65–70 mm. Adults may be distinguished by their almost uniformly black hindwing underside marked only by a small yellow spot on the margin.delias-butterflies
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Subspecies

*''D. l. ladas'' (West Papua New Guinea) *''D. l. levis'' Joicey & Talbot, 1922 (Arfak and Weyland Mountains, Irian Jaya) *''D. l. waigeuensis'' Joicey & Talbot, 1917 (Waigeu Island) *''D. l. wamenaensis'' Morita, 1993 (Ilaga - Wamena, Irian Jaya) *''D. l. yapenensis'' Yagishita, 1998 (Yapen Island) *''D. l. fakfakensis'' Yagishita, 2003 (Fakfak, Irian Jaya)

References

External links

''Delias''
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' {{Taxonbar, from=Q1982388 ladas Butterflies described in 1894 Endemic fauna of New Guinea