''Delias mesoblema'' 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 Karl Jordan in 1912. 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 ...

, where it has only been recorded from Mount Goliath in Irian Jaya. 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 44–48 mm. The forewings of the males have a white area, which is usually extended well beyond the end of the cell. Its outer edge is well defined and formed as in ''

Delias iltis ''Delias iltis'' is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by Carl Ribbe in 1900. It is endemic to New Guinea. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other win ...

'', but without any angle. The costa is black to the base and there are one or two subapical dots. The hindwings are white with a black fringe. In females, the white area is reduced and sometimes tinged with yellow. The hindwings have a black marginal border of nearly even width. This border may sometimes bear a row of five white spots, the two anterior ones more distinct than the others.delias-butterflies
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''Delias''
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' {{Taxonbar, from=Q1836745 mesoblema Butterflies described in 1912