''Delias nais'' 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
Karl Jordan in 1912. It is
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to
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 ...
.
[ Seitz, A., 1912–1927. ''Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde'' 9]
Subspecies
*''D. n. nais'' (Mount Goliath, Central Mountains, Irian Jaya: Western & Southern Highland Provinces, Papua New Guinea)
*''D. n. aegle''
Joicey & Talbot, 1922 (Central Highlands, Papua New Guinea)
*''D. n. beehleri''
van Mastrigt 2011 (Foja Mounts, West Papua)
*''D. n. keysseri''
Rothschild, 1925 Rawlinson Mtns, Papua New Guinea
*''D. n. odilae''
Gotts & Ginn, 2004 (Prince Alexander Mountains, Papua New Guinea)
References
External links
''Delias''at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
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nais
Butterflies described in 1912
Endemic fauna of New Guinea