''Dercas gobrias'' 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 William Chapman Hewitson in 1864. It is found in the

Indomalayan realm The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia. Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indi ...

. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. ''Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde'' 9

Subspecies

*''Dercas gobrias gobrias'' (Borneo) *''Dercas gobrias herodorus'' Fruhstorfer, 1910 (Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra)

References

External links

''Dercas''
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' {{Taxonbar, from=Q1827415 Butterflies described in 1864 Coliadinae Butterflies of Asia Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson