Delias microsticha is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1904. It is endemic to New Guinea.Seitz, A., 1912–1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9 Description Original
Delias microsticha spec. nov. (PI. II. f. 18. 19, males).
Male. Wings, upperside, white. Forewing: costal edge and a broad distal border black; this border gradually narrowed posticad, reaching as far proximad as base of R1 and being only 1 to l.5 mm. broad at SM2, concave proximally, slightly incised at the veins. Hindwing with thin black distal border. Underside purplish olive-black, glossy on hindwing and at apex of forewing.
Forewing: a broad streak in cell, gradually narrowed to base, two spots beyond apex of cell, and a series of subapical respectively submarginal dots.
Hindwing: a basal costal spot crimson; a spot in middle of costal margin, a row of submarginal dots, a spot in cell beyond middle, and a row of thin short streaks on disc yellow.
Female. Not known.
Hab. Owgarra, north of head of Aroa River, May 1903. Several specimens.
Subspecies D. m. microsticha (Central Highlands, Papua New Guinea) D. m. flavopicta Jordan, (Arfak Mountains, Irian Jaya) Jordan, K. Novitates Zoologicae, Vol 18, (1911) 593 nom.nov. D. m. serratula Toxopeus, 1955 Weyland Mountains through the Snow Mountains to the Central Mountains, Irian Jaya Roepke, W.K.J. [Toxopeus Mss] 1955. The butterflies of the genus Delias Hübner (Lepidoptera) in Netherlands New Guinea. Nova Guinea 6(2): 185-260. D. m. weja Mastrigt, 2006 (Foja Mountains, Irian Jaya) Mastrigt, Henk van 2006 New (sub)species of Delias (Hübner, 1819) from the Foja Mountains, Papua, Indonesia (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) Futao (51): 11-
References
External links
Delias at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms