Parnassiinae

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Parnassiinae
Small Apollo Parnassius phoebus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Subfamily: Parnassiinae
Tribes

The Parnassiinae or Snow Apollos are a subfamily of the Papilionidae or Swallowtail family. The subfamily includes about 50 medium sized, white or yellow species.[1] The Snow Apollos are high altitude butterflies and are distributed across Asia, Europe and North America.[2]

The tribes recognized in the Parnassinae are Parnassiini, Zerynthiini and the Luehdorfiini.

Gallery

Subfamily : Parnassiinae.

Parnassinae
Parnassiini

Hypermnestra



Parnassius



Luehdorfiini


Archon



Doritites bosniackii




Luehdorfia



Zerythiini

Sericinus




Bhutanitis




Zerynthia



Allancastria






? Thaites



A proposed phylogeny of the Parnassius and related groups.[3]

References

  1. The Butterflies of North America, James A. Scott, ISBN 0-8047-1205-0, 1986
  2. Ackery PR (1975) A guide to the genera and species of Parnassiinae (Lepidoptera:Papilionidae). Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 31, 4 pdf
  3. Nazari, V., Zakharov, E.V., and Sperling, F.A.H., 2007. Phylogeny, historical biogeography, and taxonomic ranking of Parnassiinae (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae) based on morphology and seven genes. Molecular phylogenetics and Evolution, 42: 131-156. pdf

Further reading

  • Glassberg, Jeffrey Butterflies through Binoculars, The West (2001)
  • Guppy, Crispin S. and Shepard, Jon H. Butterflies of British Columbia (2001)
  • James, David G. and Nunnallee, David Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies (2011)
  • Pelham, Jonathan Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada (2008)
  • Pyle, Robert Michael The Butterflies of Cascadia (2002)

External links

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