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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Delias |
| Species: | D. ladas |
| Binomial name | |
| Delias ladas Grose-Smith, 1894 | |
Delias ladas is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by Henley Grose-Smith in 1894. It is endemic to New Guinea.
Subspecies
- D. l. ladas (West Papua New Guinea)
- D. l. levis Joicey & Talbot, 1922 (Arfak and Weyland Mountains, Irian Jaya)
- D. l. waigeuensis Joicey & Talbot, 1917 (Waigeo Island)
- D. l. wamenaensis Morita, 1993 (Ilaga - Wamena, Irian Jaya)
- D. l. yapenensis Yagishita, 1998 (Yapen Island)
- D. l. fakfakensis Yagishita, 2003 (Fakfak, Irian Jaya)
References
- Grose-Smith, 1894 Descriptions of nine new species of butterflies, from the Sattelberg, near Finsch Hafen, German New Guinea, in the collections of the Honourable Walter Rothschild and H. Grose Smith, captured by Captains Cayley Webster and Cotton Novitates Zoologicae 1 (3): 585-590
- Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
External links
- Delias at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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