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Painted Jezebel

Delias hyparete

Classification

Class
Insecta
Family
Pieridae

Delias hyparete, the painted Jezebel, is a medium-sized butterfly of the family Pieridae, found in South Asia and Southeast Asia. Description This species closely resembles Delias eucharis but can be distinguished as follows: Male upper forewing has the black margins to the veins more diffuse; the transverse postdiscal band diffuse, ill-defined, oblique, not parallel to termen in its lower portion but terminated at apex of vein 2; the apical portion of the wing beyond the fascia more or less so thickly shaded with black scales as to leave the white lanceolate (lance-shaped) spaces…

Distribution

Dang H, Huynh H, Phan T, Bui KT, Luong TT, Nguyen VH · CC BY
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