| Bailey's Apollo | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Parnassius |
| Species: | P. baileyi |
| Binomial name | |
| Parnassius baileyi South, 1913 |
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Bailey's Apollo Parnassius baileyi is a high altitude butterfly which is found in S.W. China (Sichuan and N Yunan) and Eastern Tibet. It is a member of the Snow Apollo genus Parnassius of the Swallowtail (Papilionidae) family.
The taxonomic status of this butterfly is uncertain.Parnassius baileyi was originally described as a subspecies of Parnassius acco, later as a subspecies of P. rothschildianus Bryk, 1931 and also P. przewalskii(Alpherakyi 1887) , and now also treated as a separate species (Weiss 1992), (Chou, 1994).
The butterfly was named for Frederick Marshman Bailey who collected the first specimens.