''Delias lativitta'' 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
John Henry Leech
John Henry Leech (5 December 1862 – 29 December 1900) was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera and Coleoptera.
His collections from China, Japan, and Kashmir are in the Natural History Museum, London. These also contain inse ...
in 1893 . It is found in the
Indomalayan realm
The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia.
Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indi ...
.
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 83–100 mm for males and 102–104 mm for females. Adults may be distinguished by the white cell patch on the upperside of the hindwings.
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Subspecies
* ''D. l. lativitta'' (Kanding, W. Sichuan, China)
* ''D. l. formosana'' Matsumura, 1909 (China, Taiwan)
* ''D. l. parva'' Talbot, 1937 (Bhutan)
* ''D. l. naga'' Tytler, 1939 (Nagaland, N.E. India)
* ''D. l. yunnana'' Talbot, 1937 (Weixi, N.Yunnan, China)
* ''D. l. tongi'' Mell, 1938 (Kuatun, north-western Fujian, China)
* ''D. l. tai'' Yoshino, 1999 (Xishuangbanna, S.Yunnan, China)
* ''D. l. batangensis'' Yoshino, 2022 (Batang, Far W. Sichuan, China)
* ''D. l. shaanxiensis'' Chou, Zhang & Wang 2001 (Shaanxi, China)
* ''D. l. nepalica'' Katayama, 2017 (Nepal)
References
External links
''Delias''
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
*
Delias lativitta
' at Olivier Pequin's ''Delias of the World''
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lativitta
Butterflies described in 1893