Parnassius glacialis

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Glacial Apollo

Paratype of Parnassius glacialis shikokuensis from Isizuchi, Shikoku

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Parnassius
Species:	P. glacialis

Binomial name

Parnassius glacialis
Butler, 1866

Glacial Apollo or Japanese Clouded Apollo Parnassius glacialis, is a high altitude butterfly found in Japan, E. China and Korea. It is a member of the Snow Apollo genus Parnassius of the Swallowtail (Papilionidae) family.

1 Classification
2 Range
3 Status
4 Cited references
5 Other references
6 See also
7 External links

[edit] Classification

There are fifteen subspecies. P. glacialis has been treated as a subspecies of Parnassius stubbendorfi but this is disproved by Takashi et al. 2001 who show that the subspecies of glacialis from Korea and Japan may be one species while those from mainland China another.

[edit] Range

E. China, Korea, Japan.

[edit] Status

Quite common but threatened by urbanisation in some areas.

[edit] Cited references

Takashi Yagi, Toru Katoh, Anton Chichvarkhin, Tsutomu Shinkawa and Keiichi Omoto,2001 “Molecular phylogeny of butterflies Parnassius glacialis and P. stubbendorfii at various localities in East Asia” Genes Genet. Syst. Vol. 76 229-234

[edit] Other references

Nemoto T & Inomata T, 1994 Geographical and individual variations of the genus Parnassius Latreille, 1804: Parnassius stubbendorfii Ménétriès, 1848 8 pp 117-132; col pl 56-63; fig 43-46; stapled series eds: Ohya A & Inomata T;in: Illustrations of selected insects in the world [A, Lepidoptera].