Delias melusina

MORPHOLOGY


External characteristics


Male 
Wingspan (mm): 78 (DBpedia, n.d.).
Forewings: The cilia is broad and white coloured (Yata and Morishita, 1979). 

Female  
The females generally have a different underside wing surface than the males, by being darker with broader margins on both wings (D'Abrera, 1982). The female has an uniformly black ground-colour on the forewing underside (Yata and Morishita, 1979).  

Subspecies and variation

 
No subspecies (Pequin, 2021; Yata and Morishita, 1979).

Similar species

This species is darker and has wider dark borders on the hindwing underside than Delias agostina (Pequin, 2021).

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