Delias diaphana is a species of pierine butterfly endemic to the Philippines, where it is found only on Mindanao.Delias funet.fi Description D. diaphana Semper. above scarcely distinguishable from descombesi, but beneath entirely black with abnormally large cell-spot on the forewing and similarly large submarginal patches on both wings.Upper surface of the forewing yellowish with black discocellular and black distal margin with yellow spots; hindwing white with whitish submarginal patches. The under surface with broad black postdiscal bands on both wings. A magnificent, large species.
The wingspan is 80–90 mm.
Subspecies Delias diaphana diaphana (Mt. Apo, Mindanao) Delias diaphana sagaguchii Tsukada & Nishiyama, 1980 Tsukada, E. & Nishiyama, Y., 1980. On some species of butterflies from Indonesia and the Philippines with the description of new species and new subspecies (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Memoirs of the Tsukada Collection 2: 1-23 (Masara Maine, south-eastern Mindanao) Delias diaphana basilisae Schroder, 1893 Schroder, H. G. in Schröder, H.G. & Treadaway, C. G. 1983. Neue Lepidoptera von den Philippinen, 9. Entomologische Zeitschrift 93(11): 154-160, 4 figs.(Mt.Malindang-Zamboanga, western Mindanao) Delias diaphana yatai Nakano, 1993 Nakano, S. (1993). Description of a new subspecies of Delias diaphana Semper from N.E. Mindanao. [Nakano, S. 1994: An illustrated list of the genus Delias Hübner of the World, Futao] (Tandag, north-eastern Mindanao)
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External links images representing Delias diaphana at Encyclopedia of Life