Delias hypomelas

Description

Delias hypomelas is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan in 1907. It is endemic to New Guinea. The wingspan is about 60–64 mm. Males are creamy-white with a broad black distal area on the forewings and a narrow black margin on the hindwings. The black area on the forewings reaches the discocellulars. The hindwings have the costa yellow at the base, forming a well-defined rounded spot. There is a white submarginal line, broken at the veins, from vein 7 to 2 or just below it, as well as a black discal patch, just entering the end of the cell, usually lying between veins 3 and 5 or 6. Females have orange subapical dots on the upper surface of the forewings and traces of two more, and the proximal area on both wings is white.