''Delias madetes'' 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 found in the Australasian realm. 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 75–85 mm.delias-butterflies
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Subspecies

*''Delias madetes madetes'' (New Ireland) *''Delias madetes honrathi'' Mitis, 1893 (New Britain) *''Delias madetes neohannoverana'' Rothschild, 1915 (New Hanover)

References

External links

''Delias''
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' {{Taxonbar, from=Q2773741 madetes Butterflies described in 1878 Taxa named by Frederick DuCane Godman Taxa named by Osbert Salvin