''Delias sambawana'' 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

Walter Rothschild Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild, (8 February 1868 – 27 August 1937) was a British banker, politician, zoologist and soldier, who was a member of the Rothschild family. As a Zionist leader, he was present ...

in 1894. It is found on the

Wallace line The Wallace Line or Wallace's Line is a faunal boundary line drawn in 1859 by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace and named by English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley that separates the biogeographical realms of Asia and Wallacea, a tran ...

. 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 60–65 mm. Adults are similar to ''

Delias periboea ''Delias periboea'' is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by Jean-Baptiste Godart in 1819. It is found in both the Indomalayan realm and the Australasian realm; East and West of the Wallace line. Seitz, A., 1912–1927. ''Die In ...

'' and ''

Delias fasciata ''Delias fasciata'' is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1894. It is found in the Australasian realm. It is Endemism, endemic to Sumba. The wingspan is about 60–63 mm. Adults are similar to ''Del ...

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Subspecies

*''D. s. sambawna'' (Sumbawa) *''D. s. minerva'' Fruhstorfer, 1896 (Lombok) *''D. S. everetti'' Rothschild, 1925 (Flores) *''D. s. boejanana'' Kalis, 1941 (Bali) *''D. s. kenta'' Nakano, 1991 (Alor)

References

External links

''Delias''
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' Butterflies described in 1894 sambawana {{Pieridae-stub