Parnassiinae

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Parnassiinae

Small Apollo Parnassius phoebus

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Subclass:	Pterygota
Infraclass:	Neoptera
Order:	Lepidoptera
Suborder:	Ditrysia
Infraorder:	Rhopalocera
Superfamily:	Papilionoidea
Family:	Papilionidae
Subfamily:	Parnassiinae

Tribes

Luehdorfiini
Parnassiini
Zerythiini

The Parnassiinae or Snow Apollos are a subfamily of the Papilionidae or Swallowtail family. The subfamily includes about 50 medium sized, white or yellow species.^[1] The Snow Apollos are high altitude butterflies and are distributed across Asia, Europe and North America.

[edit] Phylogeny

A proposed phylogeny of the Parnassius and related groups is given below.^[2]

Parnassinae

Parnassiini

	Hypermnestra

	Parnassius

Luehdorfiini

	Archon

	Doritites bosniackii

Luehdorfia

Zerythiini

Sericinus

Bhutanitis

	Zerynthia

	Allancastria

? Thaites

[edit] References

^ The Butterflies of North America, James A. Scott, ISBN 0-8047-1205-0, 1986
^ Nazari, V., Zakharov, E.V., and Sperling, F.A.H., 2007. Phylogeny, historical biogeography, and taxonomic ranking of Parnassiinae (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae) based on morphology and seven genes. Molecular phylogenetics and Evolution, 42: 131-156. pdf