Ixias piepersii paluensis

MORPHOLOGY


External characteristics


Male 

Forewings: The upper side wing surface is white coloured and has at the base widely scattered black scales. The dark portion is remarkably extensive and obscurely bordered. The orange marking on the wing is reduces with scattered dark scales. The underside has no marking (Yata and Morishita, 1979). 

Female  
 

Subspecies and variation

 
No subspecies (Yata and Morishita, 1979).

Similar species

This species appears to be a melanism of Ixias reinwardti (Yata and Morishita, 1979).

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