Archon bostanchii

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Archon bostanchii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Archon
Species: A. bostanchii
Binomial name
Archon bostanchii
(de Freina & Naderi, 2004)

Archon bostanchii[1] is a species of False Apollo butterfly (genus Archon) belonging to the Parnassiinae or Snow Apollo subfamily. This recently described papilionid is endemic to Iran.

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Described by Josef De Freina & Alireza Naderi 2003. Reclassified vide Atalanta 34:431

[edit] References

  • Carbonell, F., 1991. Contribution à la connaissance du genre Archon Hübner 1822: Découverte de zones de sympatrie pour Archon apollinus (Herbst) et Archon apollinaris Staudinger (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Linneana Belgica 13: 3-12.
  • Carbonell, F. and Michel, M., 2007. Une espèce jumelle méconnue du genre Archon Hübner, 1822 (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae). Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 112 (2), 2007 : 141-150.


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