Parnassius baileyi
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| Parnassius baileyi South, 1913 |
Bailey's Apollo Parnassius baileyi is a high altitude butterfly which is found in S.W. China (Sichuan and N Yunan) and Eastern Tibet. It is a member of the Snow Apollo genus Parnassius of the Swallowtail (Papilionidae) family.
The taxonomic status of this butterfly is uncertain.Parnassius baileyi was originally described as a subspecies of Parnassius acco, later as a subspecies of P. rothschildianus Bryk, 1931 and also P. przewalskii(Alpherakyi 1887) , and now also treated as a separate species (Weiss 1992), (Chou, 1994).
The butterfly was named for Frederick Marshman Bailey who collected the first specimens.
[edit] References
- Chou, I. (ed) 1994. Monographia Rhopalocerorum Sinensium (Monograph of Chinese Butterflies) [in Chinese]. Henan Scientific and Technological Publishing House, Zhengzhou.
- Weiss, J.-C. 1992. The Parnassiinae of the World. Part 2. Sciences Nat, Venette; 87 pp.
