A rare gem. A Delias Messalina vigasa female from the Baining Mountains of Eastern New Britain.

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A specimen in my collection of Delias campbelli male paratype from the Weyland Mountains. It was caught by Felix, Charles and James Pratt who collected for James John Joicey and his private Hill Museum. The Hill Collection is now in the British Museum with many ...

If your callima is from the Pass Valley, it is technically ssp ayamiae , not telefominensis (which is from Oktanglap area).
This said I personnally think both ssp are the same. :)

A revision must be done, but I am not sure there are enough specimens available to do it.


Yes they do look the ...

A recent addition A lovely Delias mesoblema from Langda, West Papua.

A recent addition a splendid Delias callima ayamiae from the Pass Valley, West Papua.

A recent addition another Delias bobaga bobaga from the Weyland Mountains.

A recent addition Delias bobaga homeyo male from Homeyo West Papua.

Another recent addition is this Delias callima satura male from Kerowagi, Papua New Guinea.

Another rare butterfly is Delias brandti. This female was caught by an intrepid collector in the Schleinitz Mountains of north-central part of New Ireland.

The very beautiful male and female of Delias salvini from Eastern New Britain, Baining Mountains

Another quite hard to get is this specimen labelled a male Delias Citronia. I see from the Delias of the World website that it is now considered a subspecies of Delias fascelis. The specimen was collected at Magoda in the Weyland Mountains at 2100 meters in 1995. It is interesting that there has ...

Two gems in my collection are this pair of Delias Bagoe from the Lelet Plateau, New Ireland.

Delias flavissima is an attractive species. This male came from Guimine in Chimbu Province, Papua New guinea.

Delias hallstromi from Kerowagi District (top) and Mount Hagen New Guinea with the rare female 'middle specimen' collected by a friend.

Delias gilliardi male and female from Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea. A lovely species.

That's interesting Olivier what you say about Delias catocausta. The supposed subspecies D. catocausta eefi is shown here from Tembagapura. I also agree with you they look like two different Delias species. I have three males of eefi in my collection and they vary little.

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Thank you Trehopr1 and Olivier for you kind words. A rare butterfly I recently acquired is this Delias catocausta nominate male from Langda in the Star Mountains. It was discovered not too far away on Mount Goliath (Mount Yamin) by A.S Meek in the moss forest of the mountains.

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Another new Delias for me is this splendid Delias bobaga from Bomomani in the Weyland Mountains, West Papua. I think this is the nominate species.

Another nice Delias from the Clathrata Group is Delias boschmai. This rarity was captured in Homeyo, Baylabu River and village, West Papua.

Two historical Delias bornemanni a rare Delias from the Owen Stanley Range in New Guinea. The first was caught by the late Ray Straatman famous for discovering the life histories of a number of Birdwing butterflies. He caught it on the famous Kokoda Trail in 1971. The second specimen was caught on ...