TL: [Papua New Guinea, Central Highlands] Owen Stanley Mts.
Males are creamy-white with a broad black distal area on the forewings and a narrow black margin on the hindwings. The black area on the forewings reaches the discocellulars. The hindwings have the costa yellow at the base, forming a well-defined rounded spot. There is a white submarginal line, broken at the veins, from vein 7 to 2 or just below it, as well as a black discal patch, just entering the end of the cell, usually lying between veins 3 and 5 or 6.
Females have orange subapical dots on the upper surface of the forewings and traces of two more, and the proximal area on both wings is white.
Females have orange subapical dots on the upper surface of the forewings and traces of two more, and the proximal area on both wings is white.
45-50 mm
Regional distr. - legend
- Delias hypomelas is a member of the clade Delias hypomelas:
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Species Author Delias heroni Kenrick, 1909 Delias hypomelas Rothschild & Jordan, 1907 Delias itamputi Ribbe, 1900 Delias ormoensis van Mastrigt, 2006 Delias sphenodiscus Roepke, 1955
- Links
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Language Website Authors 
Japanese Moths 
Lepiforum e. V. 
The insects of Papua Indonesia Jan Moonen
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 | Extinct |
 | Extinct in the wild |
 | Critically endangered |
 | Endangered |
 | Vulnerable |
 | Near Threatened |
 | Least Concern |
 | Lower Risk |
 | Legally protected |
 | CITES |