''Delias sagessa'' 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

Hans Fruhstorfer Hans Fruhstorfer (7 March 1866, in Passau, Germany – 9 April 1922, in Munich) was a German explorer, insect trader and entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He collected and described new species of exotic butterflies, especially in Ada ...

in 1910. It is found in

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a language of Papua New Guinea, which is spoken in surrounding areas of Port Moresby (Capital of Papua New Guinea). It is a simplified version of ...

. 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 38–42 mm. Males are white, with the forewings black from the apex of the cell distad, the costal edge black down to the base, a white area rounded distally, extending close to the apex of SM2. The hindwings have a very thin black distal border. Females are similar to the males, but the black apical area of the forewings is wider, and the hindwings have a broad black distal border, which slightly widens costally. There are often white submarginal dots on both wings, those of the hindwings slightly pinkish. The white area is feebly yellowish.delias-butterflies
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Subspecies

*''D. s. sagessa'' (southern Papua New Guinea) *''D. s. straatmani'' Schröder, 1977 (central Papua New Guinea)

References

External links

''Delias''
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' {{Taxonbar, from=Q1994454 sagessa Butterflies described in 1910