Delias belladonna belladonna

Delias belladonna belladonna (Fabricius, 1793)


♂, Lao Cai, Vietnam. (photo by K.Saito)		♀, Lao Cai, Vietnam. (photo by K.Saito)

ON : Papilio belladonna Fabricius, 1793
OD : Ent. syst. 3(1): 180.
TL : not stated. ['? N.E.Burma; Yunnan; Tonkin'].

Distribution : NE.Myanmar, Yunnan, N.Vietnam.

	● ssp.belladonna
	● ssp.hedybia
	● ssp.yukaae
	● ssp.endoi

Records taken from Literature

[ VIETNAM ]
Delias belladonna belladonna ; Talbot,1937 : 285. (Tonkin: Ngai-Tio; 'Hanoi'; Laokay)
Delias belladonna belladonna ; Metaye,1957 : 85. (N / C) (in part)
Delias belladonna belladonna ; Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 15. (N / C)
Delias belladonna yukaae ; Sbordoni et al.,2018 : 598. (N: Dong Van; Hoang Lien)
Delias belladonna belladonna ; Monastyrskii,2024 : 33-34, pl.3, figs.2a♂,2b♂(Un),2c♀,2d♀(Un). (N: Hoang Lien; Hoang Lien-Van Ban; Ha Giang / C: Pu Mat; Vu Quang)

Specimens Examined

[ VIETNAM ]
Tonkin (Ngai-Tio; 'Hanoi'; Laokay) : 10♂ (NHML).

Lao Cai : 1♂ 1♀.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Notes

There are various opinions on the type locality of this species. Here I temporarily follow Talbot (1937), who assumed it as 'N.E.Burma ; Yunnan ; Tonkin'. However, this opinion is rather doubtful, as Corbet (1941) pointed out, since we have not seen any individuals from the area that resemble the female illustrated in Jones' Icones. Further taxonomic and distributional studies are needed.

Literature

Fabricius, J.C.,1793 : Entomologia systematica emedata et aucta. secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, adjectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus.
3(1): [iv] + 488 pp. Copenhagen. C.G.Proft.

Talbot, G..1937 : A Monograph of the Genus Delias (6):261-656, 48 pls.
British Museum Natural History.

Corbet, A.S.,1941 : Observations on Certain of the Fabrician Names of Indo-Australian Rhopalocera (Lepid.)
Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B)10(6): 98-106.

Yata, O.,1981 : Pieridae, in: Tsukada (Ed.), Butterflies of the South East Asian Islands 2, Pieridae, Danaidae.
Plapac co., Ltd., Tokyo. pp.205-438, pls.1-84. (in Japanese)

Yagishita, A., Nakano, S. & Morita, S.,1993 : An Illustrated List of the Genus Delias Hübner of the World.
409 pls, 384 pp, Khepera Publishers, Tokyo. (in Japanese)

Sbordoni, V. & Allegrucci G., Calcagni, M. & Cesaroni, D.,2018 :
DNA barcoding and species delimitation in two species groups of Delias from South East Asia and the Sino-Himalayan zone (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Pieridae).
Biodiversität und Naturausstattung im Himalaya VI. - Erfurt 2018: 591-601.

1996.11.02 - 2025.04.30.