''Delias lytaea '' 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
Frederick DuCane Godman and
Osbert Salvin in 1878.
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 the
Bismark archipelago (
New Britain
New Britain ( tpi, Niu Briten) is the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago, part of the Islands Region of Papua New Guinea. It is separated from New Guinea by a northwest corner of the Solomon Sea (or with an island hop of Umboi the Dam ...
,
New Ireland and
New Georgia).
[ Seitz, A., 1912–1927. ''Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde'' 9]
References
External links
''Delias''at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
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lytaea
Butterflies described in 1878
Taxa named by Frederick DuCane Godman
Taxa named by Osbert Salvin