''Delias woodi '' is a species of
pierine 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 ...
endemic
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to
Mindanao
Mindanao ( ) ( Jawi: مينداناو) is the second-largest island in the Philippines, after Luzon, and seventh-most populous island in the world. Located in the southern region of the archipelago, the island is part of an island group of ...
in the
Philippines
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no),
* bik, Republika kan Filipinas
* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
* cbk, República de Filipinas
* hil, Republ ...
.
The
wingspan
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is 60–65 mm.
Subspecies
*''Delias woodi woodi'' (Mt. Apo, Mindanao)
*''Delias woodi colini''
Schroder, 1977 (Mt. Kitanlad, Mindanao)
*''Delias woodi tboli''
Schroder & Treadaway, 1984 (Mt. Parket, Mindanao)
Taxonomy
It may be a form of ''
Delias ottonia''.
References
External links
images representing ''Delias woodi'' at
Encyclopedia of Life
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woodi
Butterflies of Asia
Endemic fauna of the Philippines
Lepidoptera of the Philippines
Fauna of Mindanao
Butterflies described in 1928
Taxa named by George Talbot (entomologist)