Delias belladonna endoi

Delias belladonna endoi Yagishita, 1993


♂, Lam Dong, Vietnam.

ON : Delias belladonna endoi Yagishita,1993
OD : An illust. list. Delias World. :12, pl.98, figs.5(HT,♂), 6(PT,♂Un).
TL : Mt. Lang-bian, S.Vietnam. (in coll. A.Yagishita)

Distribution : C.Vietnam.

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

Type Materials Information

Holotype, ♂, Mar.1992. Mt.Lang-bian, S.Vietnam. (in coll. A.Yagishita)
Paratypes 6♂, Mar.1992. Mt. Lang-bian, S.Vietnam. (in coll. A.Yagishita)

Records taken from Literature

[ VIETNAM ]
Delias belladonna belladonna ; Metaye,1957 : 85. (S) (in part)
Delias belladonna endoi ; Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 15. (C: Lam Dong)
Delias belladonna endoi ; Sbordoni et al.,2018 : 598. (C: Kon Tum: Ngoc Linh)
Delias belladonna endoi ; Yokochi et al.,2015 : 39, figs.17,♂,17v♂(Un),18,♀,18v♀(Un). (Khanh Hoa: Hon Ba)
Delias endoi ; Monastyrskii,2024 : 34-35, pl.3, figs.a♂,b♂(Un),c♀,d♀(Un),e♂,f♂(Un),g♀[♂],h♀[♂](Un). (N: Hoang Lien; Tam Dao / C: Ngoc Linh; Kon Ka Kinh; Chu Yang Sin; Bidoup-Nui Ba; Dalat; Hon Ba)

Specimens Examined

[ VIETNAM ]
Lam Dong : 1♂.

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

Notes

According to the molecular analysis of Sbordoni et al. (2018), the populations in C. Vietnam are rather different from those in the surrounding areas. Subsequently, Monastyrskii (2024) treated endoi as a separate species and noted its similarity to ssp.malayana from W. Malaysia. However, I consider the relationship to ssp.hedybia from Thailand to be very important: the individuals illustrated by Monastyrskii (2024) as endoi from N. Vietnam seem to me to be a variation of hedybia.
Indeed, there seem to be two strains of belladonna: the belladonna strain and the endoi (hedybia) strain. I will provisionally treat endoi as a subspecies of belladonna until hedybia, malayana and the surrounding populations can be analysed.

Literature

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.

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.

1996.10.31 - 2025.04.30.