| Delias microsticha | |
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| Delias microsticha flavopicta male | |
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| figs 18,19 | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Delias |
| Species: | D. microsticha |
| Binomial name | |
| Delias microsticha Rothschild, 1904 | |
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Delias microsticha is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1904. It is endemic to New Guinea.
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.
