Parnassius stenosemus

Parnassius stenosemus
Parnassius stenosemus figure in Seitz Macrolepidoptera of the World
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Parnassius
Species: P. stenosemus
Binomial name
Parnassius stenosemus
(Honrath, 1890)

Parnassius stenosemus 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. Parnassius stenosemus was originally described as a subspecies of P. delphius and has also been regarded as conspecific with P. stoliczkanus.

It was treated as a good species by Bryk (1935), a view accepted by many later authors including Weiss (1992).

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