| Cardinal Apollo | |
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| Museum specimen from Trans Alai Aram Kungei | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Parnassius |
| Species: | P. cardinal |
| Binomial name | |
| Parnassius cardinal Grumm-Grshimailo, 1887 |
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The Cardinal Apollo Parnassius cardinal is a high altitude butterfly which is found in North Afghanistan and Tajikistan It is a member of the Snow Apollo genus Parnassius of the Swallowtail (Papilionidae) family.
P. cardinal which was described as a species was for many years thought to be a subspecies of Parnassius delphius but it is a distinct species.