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Delias agostina

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ1945553 ↗
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Delias agostina, the yellow Jezebel is a medium-sized butterfly of the family Pieridae, that is, the yellows and whites.

Description

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Upperside cream colour, posterior wing more tinted than the other. Anterior wing with the costal margin grey. The apex, to beyond the middle of the outer margin, black, marked with a row of five white spots. Posterior wing with the border of the underside seen through.

Underside. Anterior wing with all the nervures broadly black. Posterior wing of a rich orange yellow, with a submarginal line of black and marginal spots of the same colour.

Expan. 2-8/10 in.

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This entry incorporates text from “Delias agostina” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.