''Delias periboea'' 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 Jean-Baptiste Godart in 1819. It is found in both 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 ...

and the Australasian realm; East and West of the Wallace line. Seitz, A., 1912–1927. ''Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde'' 9

Subspecies

*''D. p. periboea'' (Java, Kangean Islands) *''D. p. alorensis'' Fruhstorfer, 1899 (Alor) *''D. p. floresiana'' Roepke, 1954 (Flores) *''D. p. livia'' Fruhstorfer, 1896 (Lombok) *''D. p. atakei'' Nakano, 1993 (Kangean) *''D. p. pagenstecheri'' Fruhstorfer, 1896 (Sumba) *''D. p. wallacei'' Rothschild, 1892 (Bali)

References

External links

''Delias''
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' {{Taxonbar, from=Q1831806

periboea __NOTOC__ In Greek mythology, the name Periboea (; Ancient Greek: Περίβοια "surrounded by cattle" derived from ''peri'' "around" and ''boes'' "cattle") refers to multiple figures: *Periboea, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughte ...

Butterflies described in 1819 Butterflies of Asia Butterflies of Australia Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Godart