Parnassius cardinal
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Museum specimen from Trans Alai Aram Kungei
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| Parnassius cardinal Grumm-Grshimailo, 1887 |
The Cardinal Apollo Parnassius cardinal is a high altitude butterfly which is found in North Afghanistan and Tajikistan It is a member of the Snow Apollo genus Parnassius of the Swallowtail (Papilionidae) family.
P. cardinal which was described as a species was for many years thought to be a subspecies of Parnassius delphius but it is a distinct species.
[edit] References
- Stshetkin, Ju.Ju. 1979. The species status of Parnassius cardinal Gr.Gr. and a new subspecies of Parnassius delphius Ev. (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Doklady Akademii Nauk Tadzhikskoi SSR, 22 (2): 63-66.(in Russian)
- Weiss, J.-C. 1992. The Parnassiinae of the World. Part 2. Sciences Nat, Venette; 87 pp.

