- Parnassius dongalaicus
Taxobox
name = Tytler's Apollo
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropod a
classis =Insect a
ordo =Lepidoptera
unranked_familia =Rhopalocera
superfamilia =Papilionoidea
familia =Papilionidae
genus = "Parnassius "
species = "P. dongalaicus "
binomial = "Parnassius dongalaicus "
binomial_authority = Tytler, 1926Tytler'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 speciessympatric with "epaphus" and as thesenior 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.
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