Delias singhapura is a butterfly in the family Pieridae.It was described by Alfred Russel Wallace in 1867. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
Description Thyca singhapura, n, sp. (PI. VII. fig. 2, $.)
Male.— Wings elongate; above, white, the costal margin and the outer half of the uppers dusky, nearly black at the apex, and with an ill-defined inner edge; lower wings with a narrow interrupted black border behind, within which dusky patches of scales extend a short distance along the nervures. Beneath: upper wings white, the nervures of the upper half black-margined, the apex blackish, leaving a row of six distinct ovate white spots; lower wings bright yellow, the nervures black-bordered, and a rather broad black border round the hind margin enclosing a row of six whitish spots, the inner ones bifid, the outermost yellow-tinged.
Expanse of wings .
Hab.—Singapore (Coll. Wall.).
Subspecies Delias singhapura singhapura (Singapore, southern Malaysia, southern Peninsular Thailand) Delias singhapura acuta Rothschild, 1915 (Sumatra) Delias singhapura indistincta Fruhstorfer, 1897 (Borneo) Delias singhapura simeuluensis Kotaki, 1992 (Simeulue) Delias singhapura tsukadai Nakano, 1993 (Banyak) Delias singhapura yusukei Nakano, 1988 (Palawan)
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External links
Delias at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms