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Jezebels
Delias
Delias is a genus of butterflies. There are about 250 species of the genus Delias, found in South Asia and Australia.They are remarkable for the gay-coloured under surfaces of very many species which often show an altogether ideally beautiful arrangement of intensively coloured bands and spots. The Delias are a characteristic feature of the IndoAustralian fauna. They enliven the woods and their borders, as Appias and Catopsilia predominate at the river-banks, fly often round the tops of the forest-trees, are fond of resting on leaves and flowers (for instance on those of the Cinchona-tree, the Lantana) or in rarer cases speed over grassy plains in wild, irregular flight (battana in South Celebes).
But most species fly slowly and quietly from flower to flower and often do not even leave the bush on which, frequently to the number of many hundreds, they emerged from the pupa (belisama on Java). Comparatively few species are distributed over large tracts of country, most remain local or insular; they are inclined to geographical variation, even on the same island (bromo, fruhstorferi in East Java and crithoe, momiea in West Java, which are so different that they were described as separate species). But they are by no means particular as to their place of flight and we meet with them at the seashore in mangrove thickets (from whence they often fly out even over the sea), on the high volcanoes of the Malayan Archipelago and in the Himalayas, where they are common up to 8,000 ft (2,400 m), but also ascend to 10,000–11,000 ft (3,000–3,400 m).
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Red-based Jezebel
speciesDelias pasithoe
Painted Jezebel
speciesDelias hyparete
Common Jezebel
speciesDelias eucharis
Black Jezebel
speciesDelias nigrina
Imperial Jezebel
speciesDelias harpalyce
Red-spotted Jezebel
speciesDelias aganippe
Scarlet Jezebel
speciesDelias argenthona
Red-spot Jezebel
speciesDelias descombesi
hill jezebel
speciesDelias belladonna
red-banded jezebel
speciesDelias mysis
Red-breast Jezebel
speciesDelias acalis
Yellow-spotted Jezebel
speciesDelias nysa
Delias belisama
speciesDelias belisama
Delias henningia
speciesDelias henningia
Malayan Jezebel
speciesDelias ninus
Yellow-banded Jezebel
speciesDelias ennia
Yellow Jezebel
speciesDelias agostina
Delias periboea
speciesDelias periboea
Delias ellipsis
speciesDelias ellipsis
Dark Jezebel
speciesDelias berinda
Delias zebuda
speciesDelias zebuda
Mangrove Jezebel
speciesDelias aestiva
pale Jezebel
speciesDelias sanaca
Delias surprisa
speciesDelias surprisa
Delias oraia
speciesDelias oraia
Bornean Jezebel
speciesDelias eumolpe
Delias wilemani
speciesDelias wilemani
Golden Jezebel
speciesDelias aruna
Kinabalu Jezebel
speciesDelias cinerascens
Delias microsticha
speciesDelias microsticha
Delias ladas
speciesDelias ladas
Delias rosenbergi
speciesDelias rosenbergi
Delias caroli
speciesDelias caroli
Delias diaphana
speciesDelias diaphana
Delias catisa
speciesDelias catisa
Delias ligata
speciesDelias ligata
Delias baracasa
speciesDelias baracasa
Delias splendida
speciesDelias splendida
Delias toxopei
speciesDelias toxopei
Lovely Jezebel
speciesDelias lara
Delias meeki
speciesDelias meeki
Timor Jezebel
speciesDelias timorensis
Delias crithoe
speciesDelias crithoe
White-streaked Jezebel
speciesDelias lativitta
Delias antara
speciesDelias antara
Delias flavistriga
speciesDelias flavistriga
Delias aurantia
speciesDelias aurantia
Delias momea
speciesDelias momea
Delias nais
speciesDelias nais
Delias hapalina
speciesDelias hapalina
Delias melusina
speciesDelias melusina
Delias albertisi
speciesDelias albertisi
Delias sambawana
speciesDelias sambawana
Delias subnubila
speciesDelias subnubila
Delias hypomelas
speciesDelias hypomelas
Delias geraldina
speciesDelias geraldina
Delias argentata
speciesDelias argentata
Delias pheres
speciesDelias pheres
Delias schmassmanni
speciesDelias schmassmanni
Delias caeneus
speciesDelias caeneus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Delias in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 123899.