Parnassius cardinal

Taxobox
name = Cardinal Apollo
regnum = Animalia

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image_caption = Museum specimen from Trans Alai Aram Kungei
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
unranked_familia = Rhopalocera
superfamilia = Papilionoidea
familia = Papilionidae
genus = "Parnassius"
species = "P. cardinal"
binomial = "Parnassius cardinal"
binomial_authority = Grumm-Grshimailo, 1887The Cardinal Apollo "Parnassius cardinal" is a high altitude butterfly which is found in North Afghanistanand 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.

References

*Stshetkin, Ju.Ju. 1979. The species status of Parnassius cardinal Gr.Gr. and a new subspecies of Parnassius delphius Ev. (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae)." Doklady Akademii Nauk Tadzhikskoi SSR", 22 (2): 63-66.(in Russian)
*Weiss, J.-C. 1992. "The Parnassiinae of the World". Part 2. Sciences Nat, Venette; 87 pp.

External Links

* [http://rusinsects.com/p-card.htm Rusinsects]