''Delias schoenbergi'' 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 1895. It is found in the Australasian realm. The

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is about 65–70 mm.delias-butterflies
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Subspecies

*''D. s. schoenbergi'' (Bougainville) *''D. s. choiseuli'' Rothschild, 1904 (Choiseul) *''D. s. isabellae'' Rothschild & Jordan, 1901 (Santa Isabel)

Etymology

The species is named for Wolf von Schönberg a collector from Naumburg who acquired specimens from German colonists in Borneo (1889/90), German New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago (1892/1902).

References

External links

''Delias''
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' {{Taxonbar, from=Q2374881 schoenbergi Butterflies described in 1895