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Subspecies and range of Delias madetes :

. madetes Godman & Salvin 1878 - New Ireland

honrathi Mitis 1893 - New Britain

neohannoverana Rothschild 1915 - New Hanover

 

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Notes on Delias madetes :

This species is restricted to the Bismarck Islands. Talbot has suggested that it is probably derived from some Moluccan form which has now disappeared, and which was also the progenitor of Delias aruna.

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