Parnassius felderi

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Felder's Apollo'

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
(unranked) Rhopalocera
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Parnassius
Species: P. felderi
Binomial name
Parnassius felderi
Bremer, 1861

Felder's Apollo Parnassius felderi is a high altitude butterfly which is found in Amur, Ussuri and China, North Korea and Japan. It is a member of the Snow Apollo genus Parnassius of the Swallowtail (Papilionidae) family.

P. felderi is considered conspecific with Parnassius eversmanni by most authors but a good species by Weiss (1999).

[edit] References

Weiss, J.C., 1999. The Parnassiinae of the world Part 3. Sci. Nat. Venette, France.

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