| Maharaja Apollo | |
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| A male specimen from Taglang Pass, Ladakh, in the Ulster Museum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Parnassius |
| Species: | P. maharaja |
| Binomial name | |
| Parnassius maharaja Avinoff, 1916 |
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Maharaja Apollo Parnassius maharaja is a high altitude butterfly which is found in India. It is a member of the Snow Apollo genus Parnassius of the Swallowtail (Papilionidae) family.
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North-Western India.
Local. Not known to be threatened.