Delias lara is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1836. It is found in New Guinea. Description Delias lara is closely related to Delias mysis but differs by the white not yellow subapical spots on the forewing recto.These are weakly developed and may be absent. On the verso the subapical spots are yellow and larger.mysis forms a transition to lara Bdv., from Dutch North-West New Guinea, from which it differs in having the red and black bands on the underside of both wings almost twice as broad. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
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Subspecies D. l. lara (Waigeu, New Guinea, Mysol, Milne Bay, Numfor, Yule) D. l. hideyoae Nakano, 1995 (Japen island) D. l. goodenovii (Rothschild, 1915) Rothschild, W., 1915 Notes on and Descriptions of Delias Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 15 (85) : 172-180 (Goodenough islands) D. l. maga Grose-Smith, 1897 Grose-Smith, H., 1897 Descriptions of further new Species of Butterflies from the Pacific Islands Ann. Mag. Nat. hist. (6) 19 : 403-407 (Sud-Est island) D. l. rosselliana Rothschild, 1915 op. cit. (Rossell islands) Taxonomy lara is a member of the hyparete species group. In recent works lara is a junior synonym of mysis. Davenport, C. & van Mastrigt, H.J.G. 2008. Revision of Delias mysis (Fabricius, 1775) and closely related species (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). Suara Serangga Papua 3(2): 15-23.
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Delias at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms