| Glacial Apollo | |
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| Paratype of Parnassius glacialis shikokuensis from Isizuchi, Shikoku | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Parnassius |
| Species: | P. glacialis |
| Binomial name | |
| Parnassius glacialis Butler, 1866 |
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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.
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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.
E. China, Korea, Japan.
Quite common but threatened by urbanisation in some areas.