Parnassius cardinal

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Cardinal Apollo
Museum specimen from Trans Alai Aram Kungei
Museum specimen from Trans Alai Aram Kungei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
(unranked) Rhopalocera
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Parnassius
Species: P. cardinal
Binomial name
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.

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