''Delias ninus'', the Malayan Jezebel, 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

Alfred Russel Wallace Alfred Russel Wallace (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator. He is best known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural se ...

in 1867. 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 70–85 mm.delias-butterflies
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Subspecies

*''Delias ninus alluviorum'' Fruhstorfer, 1905 (western Sumatra) *''Delias ninus babai'' Yagishita, 1997 (Myanmar) *''Delias ninus ninus'' (Peninsular Malaysia) *''Delias ninus parthenia'' Staudinger, 1892 (northern Borneo) *''Delias ninus saranensis'' Yagishita, 1993 (Mt. Saran, western Kalimantan) *''Delias ninus shoujii'' Yagishita, 1993 (Mt. Bawang, western Kalimantan)

References

External links

''Delias''
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' ninus Butterflies described in 1867 Butterflies of Asia Taxa named by Alfred Russel Wallace {{Pieridae-stub