Parnassius dongalaicus

Taxobox
name = Tytler's Apollo
regnum = Animalia


phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
unranked_familia = Rhopalocera
superfamilia = Papilionoidea
familia = Papilionidae
genus = "Parnassius"
species = "P. dongalaicus "
binomial = "Parnassius dongalaicus "
binomial_authority = Tytler, 1926

Tytler's Apollo "Parnassius " is a high altitude butterfly which is found in China.

It is a member of the Snow Apollo genus "Parnassius" of the Swallowtail (Papilionidae) family.

"P. dongalaicus" was originally described as a species, but was subsequently considered conspecific with "Parnassius epaphus".Sorimachi (1995) and Sugisawa (1996) both regard "P. dongalaicus" as a good species sympatric with "epaphus" and as the senior synonym of "rikihiroi" Kawasaki, 1995.

References

*Sorimachi, Y. 1995. "The Primer of Parnassius" . Sorimachi, Saitama; 181 pp. In Japanese but including 40 plates.
*Sugisawa, S. 1996. Geographical and individual variations of the genus Parnassius Latreille, 1804 (9) Parnassius epaphus Oberthür & Parnassius dongalaicus Tytler. "Illustrations of Selected Insects in the World". Series A (Lepidoptera), 9: 133-155.