Delias ninus Wallace 1867
Delias ninus ninus male
Telegraph Loop, c1200m, Fraser’s Hill, Pahang State, Malaysia, 11 August 2012
Picture by Sunny Chir
Subspecies and range of Delias ninus :
. ninus Wallace 1867 - Malay peninsular (including South part of Peninsular Thailand)
. homonym thysbe Cramer 1779
. parthenia Staudinger 1892 - N. Borneo
. alluviorum Fruhstorfer 1905 - W. Sumatra
. shoujii Yagishita 1993 - Mt. Bawang, W. Kalimantan
. saranensis Yagishita 1993 - Mt. Saran, W. Kalimantan
. babai Yagishita 1997 - Tenasserim, Burma
Notes on Delias ninus :
A common mountain species in the Malay Peninsular and Borneo, but rarer on Sumatra. It flies above 3000 feet. The discovery of the Burman subspecies is rather recent.
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